The 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition
FIRST is a spirited competition using sophisticated robotics technology. Image Credit: FIRST
The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, nationwide competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way.For many years, the NASA Robotics Alliance Project has been supporting participation in the FIRST Robotics Competition by providing grants to high school teams as well as sponsoring FIRST regional competitions.
Providing support to competitions like FIRST Robotics is one way the NASA Robotics Alliance Project strives to create a human, technical and programmatic resource of robotics capabilities to aid future robotic space exploration missions.
FIRST Robotics Features and Multimedia
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2011 FIRST Championship Celebrates Science, Technology and Teamwork
More than 11,000 students and their robots recently competed and earned honors for design excellence, competitive play, teamwork and partnerships.
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Knights, Triple Helix Find Success in Richmond
Power tools? Check. Costumes? Check. An arena full of super-excited, engineering-savvy teenagers? Definitely. Sixth-three high school robotics teams competed in the FIRST Robotics Virginia Regional Tournament at Richmond.
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Competition Heats Up for Kennedy's FIRST Robotics Teams
About 60 high school teams participate in the "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology," or FIRST, competition at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
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Future Engineers Unite at Robotics Competition
Multiple student teams from across California, and one team from Chile, participated in the 20th annual Los Angeles regional FIRST competition this past weekend.
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2011 FIRST Robotics Competition -- NASA Knights
The NASA Knights, a FIRST Robotics team from Hampton, Va., spent all of February building and programming a robot to participate in the 2011 LogoMotion competition.
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Students on Track for LOGO Motion Competition
A six-week design and build challenge that had high school students across the world busy every day after school and on weekends is wrapping up.
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2011 FIRST Robotics Competition Kicks Off
After months of speculation, high school FIRST Robotics teams across the world learned on Saturday Jan. 8 what the engineering challenge for the 2011 competition would entail.
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Sugar and Spice
The all-girl "Space Cookies" robotics team is gearing up for its fifth season of FIRST Robotics.
FIRST Robotics News
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NASA Announces Robotics Student Competition 2012 Grant Awards
12.08.11 - NASA is challenging student inventors to gear up for the agency's 19th annual Great Moonbuggy Race. Registration is open for the engineering design and racing contest set to culminate in a two-day event in Huntsville, Ala., on April 13-14, 2012.
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High School Robotics Teams Head to Richmond for Regional Tournament
04.04.11 - Thousands of budding engineers who share a passion for robots will gather in Richmond this week for the Virginia Regional FIRST Robotics Competition.
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Tenth Annual FIRST Buckeye Regional Robotics Competition
03.25.11 - The Tenth Annual FIRST Buckeye Regional Robotics Competition April 7-9 at Wolstein Center. The event is free and open to the public.
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NASA Kicks Off 2011 Nationwide First Robotics Competition
01.07.11 - An international robotics competition that develops the next generation of technology leaders kicks off this weekend.
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FIRST Robotics Competition Kicks Off Saturday
01.06.11 - Media is invited to the FIRST Robotics Competition Kickoff.
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NASA Funds Nationwide High School Student Robotics Program
11.30.10 - NASA is providing up to $20 million over the next five years to support a national robotics technology program to inspire student interest in science, technology and mathematics.
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