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| Sport | Robotics-related games |
|---|---|
| Founded | Dean Kamen Woodie Flowers |
| First season | 1992 |
| Commissioner | Collin Fultz[1] |
| Motto | "More Than Robots" |
| No. of teams | 3,468 (2024)[2] |
| Countries | |
| Most recent champion(s) | 1690 - "Orbit" 4522 - "Team Scream" 9432 - "Team 8-Bit" 321 - "RoboLancers" (2024) |
| Most titles | 254 - "The Cheesy Poofs" (5 championship wins)[3] |
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 115 pounds (52 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.
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.
2024 was the 33rd year of the competition. 3,468 teams, including more than 86,700 students and 27,700 mentors from 28 countries including the United States, Canada, China, and Turkey, built robots. The 2024 season included 62 Regional Competitions, 98 District Qualifying Competitions, and 11 District Championships.[7] In 2024, over 600 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 and onward.
- ^ Fultz, Collin (August 3, 2022). "A Frank Farewell". firstinspires.org. US FIRST. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
- ^ a b "2024 Season Facts" (PDF). FIRST. January 4, 2024. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
- ^ "Insights Overview". The Blue Alliance. Retrieved May 2, 2022.
- ^ "2025 FRC Game Manual" (PDF).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Kit of Parts". FIRST. October 19, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
- ^ "Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition". FIRST. Archived from the original on October 27, 2014. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
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