Watch the 2012 FIRST Robotics Kick-Off Event
The 2012 FIRST Robotics Kick-Off Event took place Jan. 7, 2012 at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. During the event, FIRST founder Dean Kamen and designers of the annual challenge revealed the competition scenario for 2012. This kicks off a six-week design and building frenzy for more than 2,000 teams, or 50,000 students and engineering mentors in this year's competition.
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The 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition
FIRST is a spirited competition using sophisticated robotics technology. Image Credit: FIRST
The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, nationwide competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way.For many years, the NASA Robotics Alliance Project has been supporting participation in the FIRST Robotics Competition by providing grants to high school teams as well as sponsoring FIRST regional competitions.
Providing support to competitions like FIRST Robotics is one way the NASA Robotics Alliance Project strives to create a human, technical and programmatic resource of robotics capabilities to aid future robotic space exploration missions.
FIRST Robotics Features and Multimedia
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Local Teams Win Zero Robotics, FIRST Competitions
Find out what it takes to control small, spherical flying robots in a true zero gravity environment...
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NASA-Supported Robotics Teams Advance to Championship
High school teams from the San Francisco Bay area demonstrated engineering, electronics and programming skills as they designed and built robots.
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Robot Rumble
High school teams go head to head in a robotics competition to create March madness robot-style!
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NASA JPL FIRST Robotics Image Gallery
Check out pictures from 2012 FIRST Robotics competitions in California.
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Student-designed Robots Take on March Madness →
Sixty-six high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition.
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NASA Announces Robotics Student Competition Grants
NASA is awarding grants totaling $1,386,500 for student teams in 37 states to participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition.
FIRST Robotics News
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National Robotics Competition Arrives in Washington March 30
03.29.12 - Media representatives are invited to attend an international student robotics competition sponsored by NASA and other organizations Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31.
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High School Robotics Teams Head to Richmond for Regional Tournament
03.14.12 - Thousands of budding engineers who share a passion for robots will gather in Richmond March 16 and 17 for the Virginia Regional FIRST Robotics Competition.
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High School Students to Show off Design and Engineering Talent at FIRST Robotics Competition
03.05.12 - Students to compete in the 2012 Buckeye Regional FIRST Robotics Competition. Admission is free and open to the public.
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NASA Joins MIT and DARPA for Out-of-This-World Student Robotic Challenge
01.18.12 - NASA will join the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and high school student teams from the U.S. and abroad for the third annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge on Monday, Jan. 23.
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NASA Helps Kick Off 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition
01.06.12 - An international robotics competition aimed at developing a new generation of technology leaders kicks off at 10:30 a.m. EST Saturday, Jan. 7. NASA, the largest sponsor of the FIRST Robotics Competition, and its centers across the nation will join local technology firms to launch the event.
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The 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition Kicks Off Saturday
01.05.12 - Student teams gear up for the exciting competition season at Saturday’s FIRST Robotics Competition kickoff.
Related Sites
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FIRST Robotics Competition →
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Robotics Education Web Site
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NASA Education Robotics Image Gallery
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Robonaut 2
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