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FIRST Championships
Follow all the action of FIRST Robotics at the
Nationals Website. The FIRST Championship will be held from
April 17th - April 19th, 2008 in Atlanta, GA. You can view the
Webcast provided by NASA.
Welcome to the Oklahoma FIRST website!
Oklahoma FIRST is dedicated to inspiring
young people’s interest in science and technology.
Through our programs, kids team with local engineers, professors
and business people to solve real world engineering challenges.
Students develop technical expertise, and gain self confidence,
knowledge and skills to face life’s challenges. They
discover they can achieve more than they had ever dreamed
possible. We invite you to join us as a team
member, volunteer,
sponsor
or donor.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
was founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire an appreciation of
science and technology in young people. Based in Manchester, NH, the
501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization designs accessible,
innovative programs to build self-confidence, knowledge and life
skills while motivating young people to pursue opportunities in
science, technology, engineering and math.
FIRST's Vision is to positively transform
culture by inspiring young people, their schools, and communities to
appreciate science and technology. FIRST brings together schools
with businesses, and students with professionals as mentors, all
with the support of local universities.
The
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) 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. In 2006, the competition reached over 28,000 high-school-aged
young people on over 1,125 teams in 33 regional events. FRC teams
came from Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, Mexico, the U.K., 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.
Colleges, universities, corporations, businesses, and individuals
provided almost $8 million in college scholarships to FRC
participants in 2007. Involved engineers experience again many of
the reasons they chose engineering as a profession, and the
companies they work for contribute to the community while they
prepare and create their future workforce. The competition shows
students that the technological fields hold many opportunities and
that the basic concepts of science, math, engineering, and invention
are exciting and interesting.
Winning necessitates cooperation among teams that have never met
before. In a competition that has nothing to do with smashing
another robot, FRC teams of students and their mentors have six
weeks to design and build a robot from a standard kit of parts to
compete at FIRST Regional Events under the principles of "gracious
professionalism."
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