'FIRST'  (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)

FIRST is a multinational non-profit organization, that aspires to transform culture, making science, math, engineering, and technology as cool for kids as sports are today.

Dean Kamen - Inventor & Founder of FIRST

FIRST was founded in 1989 by Dean Kamen, who is the inventor of the "Segway" Human Transporter, "IBOT" Wheelchair and many other inventions.

FIRST Robotics Competition

The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. The program is a life-changing, career-molding experience - and a lot of fun. The FIRST competition has reached more than 70,000 students on over 6900 teams. Teams come from Canada, Brazil, Great Britain, and almost every U.S. state. The competitions are high-tech spectator sporting events, the result of lots of focused brainstorming, real-world teamwork, dedicated mentoring, project timelines, and deadlines.

Volunteering for FIRST

Our experience with FIRST consisted of volunteering project management, design and mentoring skills for a team called "MAK" (Marshall High School And Eastman Kodak Company). MAK was one of many corporate sponsored high school teams in the upstate NY region. Teams design and build a robot in conformance with game and competition specifications provided each year by FIRST and then compete with hundreds of other teams in national competitions.

'Battle-Bots'

Jay Leno's Chin-Killa

BattleBots was a popular show aired on Comedy Central TV. BattleBots is a great web site depicting remote controlled robots that battle each other to the death in an arena.

BattleBots must survive cutting, plummeting, stabbing, pounding, flipping, etc. from their opponents. They also have to avoid additional arena obstacles such as ramming spikes & kill saws that intermittently surface from the floor and huge sledge hammers that pummel any robots that are pushed or driven into the corners of the arena.

The Ultimate Robot : 'Robonaut'

Robonaut is a humanoid robot designed by the Robot Systems Technology Branch at NASA's` Johnson Space Center in a collaborative effort with DARPA.

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