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The FIRST Robotics Competition
(FRC) is the premier engineering challenge for high school
students. Teams of students, working closely with teachers
and volunteer mentors, have six weeks to conceptualize,
design, build, program, modify and test a robot to
participate in a competition that changes each year.
Every January, FIRST unveils
the competition or “game” at an annual kick-off event that
is simulcast to locations around the world. Teams receive a
“kit” of common parts that are used to build the core
systems of the robot, but they won’t find an instruction
manual! Students work with hundreds of components, including
engineering mainstays such as programmable radio
controllers, motors, electrical circuitry and mechanical
parts. Following the six-week design and build phase, teams
enter one or more of 40 regional competitions, including the
Chesapeake Regional,
held in March.
The season culminates with the
FIRST Championship at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, a
three-day event attended by more than 20,000 students,
families and friends.
- There were 26 FRC teams from 11
counties in Maryland for the most recent season.
- For a list of FRC teams currently
registered in Maryland, see the
FIRST activity page.
- For more information about Maryland's regional FRC
competition, see the
Chesapeake Regional site, and check out the
national
FIRST Robotics Competition website.
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