About FRCAbout FIRST Robotics Competition
The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC, for short) challenges high school students from across America and around the globe annually with an objective and a six-week timeframe to complete it in. Teams, like ours, build robots to compete in regional competitions, starting with only a kit of parts, and finishing in only six weeks.
Not only does FRC encourage teamwork, good sportsmanship, and fair competition like other varsity sports, but students receive real-world engineering experience from the program. Mentors benefit, too, as they cooperate with members and craft them to become future engineers. And with a new task every year, it inspires creativity and new ways of thinking without playing the same game over and over.
The FRC task for 2010 is called Breakaway. The objective of the game is to score standard soccer balls into goals while traversing over large, foot-high speed bumps and navigating through tunnels.
