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FIRST Robotics Competition

January 01, 1970

FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work during a six-week period to build robots capable of competing in that year's game that weigh up to 125 pounds (57 kg).[4] Robots complete tasks such as scoring balls into goals, hanging on bars, placing objects in predetermined locations, and balancing robots on various field elements. The game, along with the required set of tasks, changes annually. While teams are given a kit of a standard set of parts during the annual Kickoff,[5] they are also allowed and encouraged to buy or fabricate specialized parts. FIRST Robotics Competition is one of five robotics competition programs organized by FIRST, the other four being FIRST LEGO League Discover, FIRST LEGO League Explore, FIRST LEGO League Challenge, and FIRST Tech Challenge.

FIRST Robotics Competition
Current season, competition or edition:
Crescendo (FIRST)
SportRobotics-related games
FoundedDean Kamen
Woodie Flowers
First season1992
CommissionerCollin Fultz[1]
Motto"More Than Robots"
No. of teams3,468 (2024)[2]
Countries
28 countries and regions[2]
Most recent
champion(s)		1690 - "Orbit"
4522 - "Team Scream"
9432 - "Team 8-Bit"
321 - "RoboLancers"
(2024)
Most titles254 - "The Cheesy Poofs"
(5 championship wins)[3]

The culture of FIRST Robotics Competition is built around two values. "Gracious Professionalism" embraces the competition inherent in the program but rejects trash talk and chest-thumping, instead embracing empathy and respect for other teams. "Coopertition" emphasizes that teams can cooperate and compete at the same time.[6] The goal of the program is to inspire students to be science and technology leaders.

2022 was the 31st year of the competition. 3,225 teams, including more than 80,000 students and 25,000 mentors from 26 countries, built robots. The 2022 season included 58 Regional Competitions, 90 District Qualifying Competitions, and 11 District Championships.[7] In 2022, over 450 teams won slots to attend the FIRST Championship event, where they competed in a tournament. In addition to on-field competition, teams and team members competed for awards recognizing entrepreneurship, creativity, engineering, industrial design, safety, controls, media, quality, and exemplifying the core values of the program. As a result of COVID-19, the amount of active teams decreased during the 2021 season; however, numbers began to increase during the 2022 season.

As of 2023, there were 3,300 high school teams with approximately 83,000 high schoolers across 31 countries competing.[8]

Most teams reside in the United States, with Canada, Turkey, Mexico, Israel, China, and Australia contributing significant numbers of teams.[9]

History edit

 
1992: Maize Craze

FIRST was founded in 1989 by American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen,[10] with inspiration and assistance from physicist and MIT professor emeritus Woodie Flowers. Kamen was disappointed with the number of kids—particularly women and minorities—who did not consider science and technology careers and decided to do something about it. As an inventor, he looked for activities that captured the enthusiasm of students and decided that combining the excitement of sports competition with science and technology had the potential to inspire students.

Distilling what sports had done right into a recipe for engaging young people, Kamen says, turned out to be relatively straightforward. "It's after school, not in school. It's aspirational, not required," he explained to me.

"You don't get quizzes and tests, you go into competitions and get trophies and letters. You don't have teachers, you have coaches. You nurture, you don't judge. You create teamwork between all the participants. We justify sports for teamwork but why, when we do it in the classroom, do we call it cheating?"

Most of all, it was a nonjudgmental space, where in contrast science and math in traditional educational settings had been soured with embarrassment and uncertainty.[11]

Kamen has stated that FIRST is the invention he feels most proud of and predicts that participants will be responsible for significant technological advances in years to come.[12] The first FIRST Robotics Competition season was in 1992 and had one event at a high school gymnasium in New Hampshire.[13] That first competition was relatively small-scale, similar in size to today's FIRST Tech Challenge and Vex Robotics Competition games. Robots relied on a wired connection to receive data from drivers; in the following year, it quickly transitioned to a wireless system.[14][15]

Teams edit

 
A New York City FIRST Robotics Team at a Greater DC Regional with their robot (Hunter College High School-3419)

3,304 teams from 31 countries competed in 2023 Charged Up. Of these, 3,036 are "veteran teams" (meaning they have competed in a previous season), and 268 are "rookie teams" (meaning that 2023 was their first season of competition).[16]

The countries represented are listed below: (in decreasing order of number of teams as of 2023)

Competition edit

 
The FIRST Championship has been held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas since 2017 and will continue to be held there through 2025.

FIRST Championship edit

Main article: FIRST Championship

The FIRST Championship is the culmination of the FIRST Robotics Competition season, and occurs in late April each year. Roughly 800 teams participated in two Championship events in 2018, held in April in Houston, Texas and Detroit, Michigan.[17] After the 2022 championships concluded FIRST announced that the world championship would take place at a single location, Houston, Texas, for the 2023 and 2024 seasons.[18]

Media exposure edit

The PBS documentary "Gearing Up" followed four teams through the 2008 season.[19]

In the television series Dean of Invention, Dean Kamen made appeals promoting FIRST prior to commercial breaks.[20]

In 2008, FRC Team 1114, Simbotics, was featured in an ongoing storyline on the hit Canadian TV drama "Degrassi: Next Generation". Team 1114's 2006-2007 world champion VEX robot made an appearance, as well as their 2008 world champion FRC robot.

During the 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition season, FIRST team 3132, Thunder Down Under, was followed by a Macquarie University student film crew to document the first year of FIRST Robotics Competition in Australia. The crew produced a documentary film called I, Wombot.[21][22] The film premiered during the 2011 Dungog Film Festival.[23][24]

A book called The New Cool was written by Neal Bascomb about the story of Team 1717 from Goleta, California as they competed in the 2009 game season. A movie adaptation directed by Michael Bacall is being produced.[25]

The CNN documentary "Don't Fail Me: Education in America", which aired on May 15, 2011, followed three FIRST Robotics Competition teams during the 2011 season. The documentary profiled one student from each team, covering different geographic and socioeconomic levels: Shaan Patel from Team 1403 Cougar Robotics, Maria Castro from Team 842 Falcon Robotics, and Brian Whited from Team 3675 Eagletrons.[26]

On August 14, 2011, ABC aired a special on FIRST called "i.am FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll"[27] that featured many famous musical artists such as The Black Eyed Peas and Willow Smith. will.i.am himself was the executive producer of the special. The program placed a special focus on the FIRST Robotics competition, even though it included segments on the FIRST Tech Challenge, FIRST LEGO League, and FIRST LEGO League Jr.[28]

From 1996 to 1998, the FIRST Championship was covered by ESPN.[29]

For the 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, five FIRST Robotics Competition teams and their robots led the parade, with one robot cutting the ribbon and the others shooting confetti.[30]

In the 2014 movie Transformers: Age of Extinction, a FIRST Robotics Competition Robot built by Team 2468, Team Appreciate, for the 2012 Season was featured in Cade Yeager's garage shooting the foam basketball game pieces from Rebound Rumble.[31]

The 2015 Kickoff was, for the first time, broadcast by NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast, and was available via OnDemand for the month of January 2015.[32]

In 2016, Christina Li, a member of Team 217, the ThunderChickens, was spotlighted on an episode of Nickelodeon's The Halo Effect entitled "Hello World". A coding camp that Li organized for young girls was featured on the episode, and 217's robot from the 2015 season made an appearance.[33]

The fourth season of The Fosters (2013 TV series) had several episodes featuring characters competing in a regional FIRST Robotics Competition competition, most notably episode 8 "Girl Code".[34]

In June 2018, HBO aired a Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel episode, which in a segment, the correspondent Soledad O'Brien interviewed Dean Kamen about FIRST and FIRST Robotics Competition and then later interviewed students from various FRC teams.[35][36]

The February 25, 2020 episode of the ABC sitcom Black-ish features recurring character, Jack Johnson, joining a FIRST team—and a cameo by Dean Kamen.[37]

Episode 6 in the second season of the Netflix original series Trinkets featured a FIRST Robotics Competition competition.[38]

On March 18, 2022, Disney+ released a documentary directed by Gillian Jacobs titled "More than Robots", which follows four teams in the 2020 season, leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic.[39]

Notable people edit

Alumni edit

Employees and volunteers edit

Mentors edit

Games edit

Year Theme Number of participants Number of teams Number of official events
1992 Maize Craze 28[42]
1993 Rug Rage 25[43]
1994 Tower Power 43[44]
1995 Ramp 'n Roll 59[45]
1996 Hexagon Havoc 94[45]
1997 Toroid Terror 151[45]
1998 Ladder Logic 199[45]
1999 Double Trouble 271[45]
2000 Co-Opertition FIRST 372[45]
2001 Diabolical Dynamics 515[45]
2002 Zone Zeal 642[45]
2003 Stack Attack 787[45]
2004 FIRST Frenzy: Raising the Bar 927[45]
2005 Triple Play 25,000[46] 991[45]
2006 Aim High 1,133[45] 33[45]
2007 Rack 'n Roll 32,675[47] 1,307[47] 37[47]
2008 FIRST Overdrive 38,000 (est.)[48] 1,501[48]
2009 Lunacy 42,000+[49] 1,683[49] 49[49]
2010 Breakaway 45,000+[50] 1,808[50] 53[50]
2011 Logo Motion 51,000+[51] 2,072[51] 59[51]
2012 Rebound Rumble 59,000+[42] 2,343[42] 70[42]
2013 Ultimate Ascent 63,000+[52] 2,546[52] 78[52]
2014 Aerial Assist 68,000[53] 2,727[53] 99[53]
2015 Recycle Rush 72,500 (est.)[54] 2,900[54] 110[54]
2016 FIRST Stronghold 78,500[55] 3,140[55] 127[55]
2017 FIRST Steamworks 84,000[56] 3,357[56] 146[56]
2018 FIRST Power Up 91,500[57] 3,660[57] 160[57]
2019 Destination: Deep Space 95,050[58] 3,802[58] 175[58]
2020 Infinite Recharge 97,850[59] 3,914[59] 52[a]
2021 Infinite Recharge (2021) 52,340[60] 3,079[60] 0[b]
2022 Rapid React 70,800+[61] 3,225[7] 159[7]
2023 Charged Up 83,600+[62] 3,304[16] 167[16]
2024 Crescendo 3,468[2] 172[2]
2025 Reefscape

Gallery edit

FIRST Robotics Competition
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    Intermission during Aim High in Los Angeles, encouraging teams to socialize
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    The 2006 Triplets of 1114, 1503, and 1680. 1114 and 1503 won 3 regionals each, while 1680 won a silver finalist medal and was a quarterfinalist twice.
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    Competition at the 2008 Hawaii regionals.
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    "Barrage", Team 254's 2014 World Champion FRC robot
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    The playing field in 2024 at the PNW Glacier Peak event

Notes edit

  1. ^ 130 events and both championships cancelled.
  2. ^ No official events due to the coronavirus pandemic.

References edit

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FIRST Robotics Competition FRC is an international high school robotics competition Each year teams of high school students coaches and mentors work during a six week period to build robots capable of competing in that year s game that weigh up to 125 pounds 57 kg 4 Robots complete tasks such as scoring balls into goals hanging on bars placing objects in predetermined locations and balancing robots on various field elements The game along with the required set of tasks changes annually While teams are given a kit of a standard set of parts during the annual Kickoff 5 they are also allowed and encouraged to buy or fabricate specialized parts FIRST Robotics Competition is one of five robotics competition programs organized by FIRST the other four being FIRST LEGO League Discover FIRST LEGO League Explore FIRST LEGO League Challenge and FIRST Tech Challenge FIRST Robotics CompetitionCurrent season competition or edition Crescendo FIRST SportRobotics related gamesFoundedDean KamenWoodie FlowersFirst season1992CommissionerCollin Fultz 1 Motto More Than Robots No of teams3 468 2024 2 Countries28 countries and regions 2 United States Canada Turkey Mexico Israel China Australia Chinese Taipei Brazil India Dominican Republic Netherlands Japan United Kingdom Poland Chile Kazakhstan Libya New Zealand Singapore Ukraine Argentina Colombia Czech Republic France Germany Indonesia South Africa Switzerland VietnamMost recentchampion s 1690 Orbit 4522 Team Scream 9432 Team 8 Bit 321 RoboLancers 2024 Most titles254 The Cheesy Poofs 5 championship wins 3 The culture of FIRST Robotics Competition is built around two values Gracious Professionalism embraces the competition inherent in the program but rejects trash talk and chest thumping instead embracing empathy and respect for other teams Coopertition emphasizes that teams can cooperate and compete at the same time 6 The goal of the program is to inspire students to be science and technology leaders 2022 was the 31st year of the competition 3 225 teams including more than 80 000 students and 25 000 mentors from 26 countries built robots The 2022 season included 58 Regional Competitions 90 District Qualifying Competitions and 11 District Championships 7 In 2022 over 450 teams won slots to attend the FIRST Championship event where they competed in a tournament In addition to on field competition teams and team members competed for awards recognizing entrepreneurship creativity engineering industrial design safety controls media quality and exemplifying the core values of the program As a result of COVID 19 the amount of active teams decreased during the 2021 season however numbers began to increase during the 2022 season As of 2023 there were 3 300 high school teams with approximately 83 000 high schoolers across 31 countries competing 8 Most teams reside in the United States with Canada Turkey Mexico Israel China and Australia contributing significant numbers of teams 9 Contents 1 History 2 Teams 3 Competition 3 1 FIRST Championship 4 Media exposure 5 Notable people 5 1 Alumni 5 2 Employees and volunteers 5 3 Mentors 6 Games 7 Gallery 8 Notes 9 References 10 Sources 11 External linksHistory edit nbsp 1992 Maize Craze FIRST was founded in 1989 by American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen 10 with inspiration and assistance from physicist and MIT professor emeritus Woodie Flowers Kamen was disappointed with the number of kids particularly women and minorities who did not consider science and technology careers and decided to do something about it As an inventor he looked for activities that captured the enthusiasm of students and decided that combining the excitement of sports competition with science and technology had the potential to inspire students Distilling what sports had done right into a recipe for engaging young people Kamen says turned out to be relatively straightforward It s after school not in school It s aspirational not required he explained to me You don t get quizzes and tests you go into competitions and get trophies and letters You don t have teachers you have coaches You nurture you don t judge You create teamwork between all the participants We justify sports for teamwork but why when we do it in the classroom do we call it cheating Most of all it was a nonjudgmental space where in contrast science and math in traditional educational settings had been soured with embarrassment and uncertainty 11 Kamen has stated that FIRST is the invention he feels most proud of and predicts that participants will be responsible for significant technological advances in years to come 12 The first FIRST Robotics Competition season was in 1992 and had one event at a high school gymnasium in New Hampshire 13 That first competition was relatively small scale similar in size to today s FIRST Tech Challenge and Vex Robotics Competition games Robots relied on a wired connection to receive data from drivers in the following year it quickly transitioned to a wireless system 14 15 Teams edit nbsp A New York City FIRST Robotics Team at a Greater DC Regional with their robot Hunter College High School 3419 3 304 teams from 31 countries competed in 2023 Charged Up Of these 3 036 are veteran teams meaning they have competed in a previous season and 268 are rookie teams meaning that 2023 was their first season of competition 16 The countries represented are listed below in decreasing order of number of teams as of 2023 United States of America 2 685 Canada 190 Turkey 131 Mexico 85 Israel 67 Brazil 41 Australia 40 Chinese Taipei 25 China 10 Colombia 4 Netherlands 4 Dominican Republic 3 France 3 India 3 Japan 3 United Kingdom 3 Poland 2 Azerbaijan 1 Barbados 1 Bulgaria 1 Croatia 1 Czech Republic 1 Indonesia 1 Lesotho 1 Pakistan 1 Panama 1 Romania 1 Singapore 1 Switzerland 1 Vietnam 1 Competition edit nbsp The FIRST Championship has been held at the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston Texas since 2017 and will continue to be held there through 2025 FIRST Championship edit Main article FIRST Championship The FIRST Championship is the culmination of the FIRST Robotics Competition season and occurs in late April each year Roughly 800 teams participated in two Championship events in 2018 held in April in Houston Texas and Detroit Michigan 17 After the 2022 championships concluded FIRST announced that the world championship would take place at a single location Houston Texas for the 2023 and 2024 seasons 18 Media exposure editThe PBS documentary Gearing Up followed four teams through the 2008 season 19 In the television series Dean of Invention Dean Kamen made appeals promoting FIRST prior to commercial breaks 20 In 2008 FRC Team 1114 Simbotics was featured in an ongoing storyline on the hit Canadian TV drama Degrassi Next Generation Team 1114 s 2006 2007 world champion VEX robot made an appearance as well as their 2008 world champion FRC robot During the 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition season FIRST team 3132 Thunder Down Under was followed by a Macquarie University student film crew to document the first year of FIRST Robotics Competition in Australia The crew produced a documentary film called I Wombot 21 22 The film premiered during the 2011 Dungog Film Festival 23 24 A book called The New Cool was written by Neal Bascomb about the story of Team 1717 from Goleta California as they competed in the 2009 game season A movie adaptation directed by Michael Bacall is being produced 25 The CNN documentary Don t Fail Me Education in America which aired on May 15 2011 followed three FIRST Robotics Competition teams during the 2011 season The documentary profiled one student from each team covering different geographic and socioeconomic levels Shaan Patel from Team 1403 Cougar Robotics Maria Castro from Team 842 Falcon Robotics and Brian Whited from Team 3675 Eagletrons 26 On August 14 2011 ABC aired a special on FIRST called i am FIRST Science is Rock and Roll 27 that featured many famous musical artists such as The Black Eyed Peas and Willow Smith will i am himself was the executive producer of the special The program placed a special focus on the FIRST Robotics competition even though it included segments on the FIRST Tech Challenge FIRST LEGO League and FIRST LEGO League Jr 28 From 1996 to 1998 the FIRST Championship was covered by ESPN 29 For the 2013 Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade five FIRST Robotics Competition teams and their robots led the parade with one robot cutting the ribbon and the others shooting confetti 30 In the 2014 movie Transformers Age of Extinction a FIRST Robotics Competition Robot built by Team 2468 Team Appreciate for the 2012 Season was featured in Cade Yeager s garage shooting the foam basketball game pieces from Rebound Rumble 31 The 2015 Kickoff was for the first time broadcast by NBCUniversal a subsidiary of Comcast and was available via OnDemand for the month of January 2015 32 In 2016 Christina Li a member of Team 217 the ThunderChickens was spotlighted on an episode of Nickelodeon s The Halo Effect entitled Hello World A coding camp that Li organized for young girls was featured on the episode and 217 s robot from the 2015 season made an appearance 33 The fourth season of The Fosters 2013 TV series had several episodes featuring characters competing in a regional FIRST Robotics Competition competition most notably episode 8 Girl Code 34 In June 2018 HBO aired a Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel episode which in a segment the correspondent Soledad O Brien interviewed Dean Kamen about FIRST and FIRST Robotics Competition and then later interviewed students from various FRC teams 35 36 The February 25 2020 episode of the ABC sitcom Black ish features recurring character Jack Johnson joining a FIRST team and a cameo by Dean Kamen 37 Episode 6 in the second season of the Netflix original series Trinkets featured a FIRST Robotics Competition competition 38 On March 18 2022 Disney released a documentary directed by Gillian Jacobs titled More than Robots which follows four teams in the 2020 season leading up to the COVID 19 pandemic 39 Notable people editThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed April 2024 Learn how and when to remove this message Alumni edit Emma Dumont Imraan Faruque Dylan Field Amanda Randles Employees and volunteers edit Joseph Bouchard Michael Dubno Amber Gell Marc Hodosh entrepreneur chairman of the Boston FIRST Robotics Competition competition 40 Mark Leon NASA researcher and Master of Ceremonies for several FIRST Robotics Competition events 41 David Siegel Mentors edit Amir Abo Shaeer Team 1717 teacher and engineer subject of The New Cool Emma Dumont Maor Farid Patrick Freivald Team 1551 Grant Imahara Team 841 engineer and roboticist former cast member of MythBusters Dave Lavery Team 116 NASA scientist and former member of the FIRST Robotics Competition Game Design Committee Nic Radford Team 118 Nancy Yasecko Team 233 Games editYear Theme Number of participants Number of teams Number of official events 1992 Maize Craze 28 42 1993 Rug Rage 25 43 1994 Tower Power 43 44 1995 Ramp n Roll 59 45 1996 Hexagon Havoc 94 45 1997 Toroid Terror 151 45 1998 Ladder Logic 199 45 1999 Double Trouble 271 45 2000 Co Opertition FIRST 372 45 2001 Diabolical Dynamics 515 45 2002 Zone Zeal 642 45 2003 Stack Attack 787 45 2004 FIRST Frenzy Raising the Bar 927 45 2005 Triple Play 25 000 46 991 45 2006 Aim High 1 133 45 33 45 2007 Rack n Roll 32 675 47 1 307 47 37 47 2008 FIRST Overdrive 38 000 est 48 1 501 48 2009 Lunacy 42 000 49 1 683 49 49 49 2010 Breakaway 45 000 50 1 808 50 53 50 2011 Logo Motion 51 000 51 2 072 51 59 51 2012 Rebound Rumble 59 000 42 2 343 42 70 42 2013 Ultimate Ascent 63 000 52 2 546 52 78 52 2014 Aerial Assist 68 000 53 2 727 53 99 53 2015 Recycle Rush 72 500 est 54 2 900 54 110 54 2016 FIRST Stronghold 78 500 55 3 140 55 127 55 2017 FIRST Steamworks 84 000 56 3 357 56 146 56 2018 FIRST Power Up 91 500 57 3 660 57 160 57 2019 Destination Deep Space 95 050 58 3 802 58 175 58 2020 Infinite Recharge 97 850 59 3 914 59 52 a 2021 Infinite Recharge 2021 52 340 60 3 079 60 0 b 2022 Rapid React 70 800 61 3 225 7 159 7 2023 Charged Up 83 600 62 3 304 16 167 16 2024 Crescendo 3 468 2 172 2 2025 ReefscapeGallery editFIRST Robotics Competition nbsp Intermission during Aim High in Los Angeles encouraging teams to socialize nbsp The 2006 Triplets of 1114 1503 and 1680 1114 and 1503 won 3 regionals each while 1680 won a silver finalist medal and was a quarterfinalist twice nbsp Competition at the 2008 Hawaii regionals nbsp Barrage Team 254 s 2014 World Champion FRC robot nbsp The playing field in 2024 at the PNW Glacier Peak eventNotes edit 130 events and both championships cancelled No official events due to the coronavirus pandemic References edit Fultz Collin August 3 2022 A Frank Farewell firstinspires org US FIRST Retrieved August 3 2022 a b c d 2024 Season Facts PDF 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