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Posted at 1:41 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Travis

I used to be on a FIRST robotics team. It was fun, and i recommend it for any high school student

Posted at 1:42 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Emanuel

I’ll bake you cookies if you go to the one in Pittsburgh -next-
Friday. My team will be there. And it’ll be Pi day. =D

Really, FIRST is awesome. I too recommend it for any high school
student.

Posted at 1:48 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Josh C

I was also in FIRST. Great experience, not sure how this years game will be, should be fun to watch.

Posted at 2:33 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Seth F

Team 1149 represent!
I too would recommend F.I.R.S.T. to any high school students interested in science and engineering.

Posted at 2:37 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Gallium

im on team 2377… perhaps i will see some of you at atlants if my team makes it (yay! rookie year!)

Posted at 2:40 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by mrbob1000

I’m not involved with F.i.r.s.t. at all but I have a co-worker who coaches a local team. I’m in NH and from what I’ve heard the competition is usually really strong in this state since it’s the birth place (what with dean kamen here and all).

it’s cool stuff, I wish this was around when I was in high school :(

Posted at 2:50 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by twistedsymphony

yay for F.I.R.S.T. !
great HS program, awesome experience. Really have missed the Kennedy Space Center regionals and Epcot nationals

Posted at 2:55 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by jesus

Sweet
I’ll be at that the next three days in Richmond
Luck all
~jboll3

Posted at 2:59 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by jboll3

Team 1848! I can’t wait for the bayou regionals in new orleans. FIRST is an awesome program.

Posted at 3:13 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Rufus

I am on FIRST team 1511! we have a competition in two days at RIT!

Posted at 3:22 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by alex

I’m on a FIRST team competing next week and the program is so amazing, I can’t wait for Nationals this year. Anyone interested in it should definitely check out becoming a mentor of joining a team if you’re in high school. Team 1102 if anyone else is going to be at the Peachtree Regional next week.

Posted at 3:41 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Randy

Im part of a first team over here on the west coast. as many have said, great stuff! (when i saw that i thought id get to say hi, guess not :-/)

Posted at 3:55 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Luke Purcell

FIRST is amazing.. and when i read #11, i was like wait thats my team and then i realized it was one of the co-captains of me team. Go 1102! We think that we have the oppurntunity to go really far this year and i hope we do!!

Posted at 4:26 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Alex

I’m a 7-year veteran of FIRST… it will be great fun. I’ll be watching my old team over the web when they go to Richmond this weekend, and maybe going in person to the Boston regional later this month.

Posted at 4:51 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Jon

Im on Team 386! good luck everyone.

Posted at 5:10 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by josh

im on team 11

Posted at 5:58 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by max t

FIRST totally helped focus my energy on engineering when I was in high school. I learned more during my work on FIRST that the other 3 years of high school, combined.

Highly highly recommended to anyone with even a passing interest in any form of technology/engineering.

Team 192 represent!

Posted at 6:06 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Thomas

1675 UPS FTW! I can’t believe I hadn’t thought of submitting this before. I have been watching hackaday for a few years now, and am a 3 YEAR vet of FIRST, and would also like to point out this website is a favorite amongst some of our members (and inspiration/projects during down time). We will be competing in Milwaukee in the Wisconsin regional 3/13-15 I extend an invitation to everybody (of course) As thats what it’s all about.

Hope to maybe see hackaday? That’d be awesome… Look us up, Team 1675 the Ultimate Protection Squad

FIRST: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology

Posted at 6:09 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by 1shotjake

i am on first as a captin (tean bacon) one year we one third and this year by some mirical we were in second until the last round an we forgot to turn on the robot and were disqualified from the match comeing in 4th i belive

Posted at 6:14 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by drew

i’m on one of the teams that will be competing (1825)…looks like i might be seeing a lot of you there!

Posted at 6:25 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by matt

Hey, I’m the team captain of 1986 out of Lee’s Summit. If I see you, I will make sure to say hi!

Posted at 6:55 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Tyler

Team 333. In since HS. Will be doing robot inspections in NY in April. See you there.

Posted at 7:24 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Jebu

team #2219 representing! glad to see hack a day finally did a piece on FIRST.

Second year veteran from the St. Louis Competition. Finished 19th this year. looking forward to next years competition. Anyone from the St. Louis competition who reads hackaday should try to find me in 2219’s pit. be sure to say hi and share our own hacks/mods

Posted at 7:35 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by weirdcrap

K-C-MO, ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Posted at 8:32 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Skitchin

Leader of team 1358 here. Glad to see FIRST made it to hackaday. Come to the SPBLI and you’ll be greeted grandly by my team :)
FIRST is an awesome experience for all involved.

Posted at 8:34 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Brian C

what? how did i not know about this!

Posted at 9:46 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by andrew

I agree with the previous commenter who stated you should also go to Pittsburgh… namely to see team 451!

Posted at 10:50 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by Garrett Barboza

The first competition and vex are bot awesome, but the best high school robotics competition is the B.E.S.T. competition. Our robots have to be built from scratch given a certain amount of supplies (controller, 3 servos, two large and two small motors) and a list of other supplies that we can use. We are then given an assignment and have to build a robot that can preform the task against other robots. http://www.bestinc.org

Posted at 10:50 pm on Mar 5th, 2008 by moses

I’m a former 3 year member of team 935 from Newton, KS. They should be attending the KS event this year. If I wasn’t stuck working on my senior design project, I’d be there myself.

If you get the time, scope them out. You should be treated to a slew of CNC goodies. 8)

Posted at 12:55 am on Mar 6th, 2008 by Maxzillian

ZOMGWTFBBQ!!! OH YEAH!!! FRC Team 555 REPRESENT!!! I’ve been reading HackADay for 3 years, and I’ve been involved in F.I.R.S.T. for 3 years, coincidence? I THINK NOT! But why didn’t I think of this? Anyway, these comments are starting to get to Chief Delphi level of insanity, so I will wrap this up.

Posted at 1:31 am on Mar 6th, 2008 by Sam

I was in first, and it was a great experience, but generally
a)way to many teams have adults that do a lot of the work
b)some teams have access to insane amounts of money/equipment and have thus perfected certain aspects that always are involved with the game
c)it costs a lot of money in general for a team
d)the games haven’t been that inventive and it’s generally still some humans driving a giant RC car with added features. I doubt it will happen but I want to see first do something more in line with industry. Involve more programming and autonomous then they have, push teams to go past the rc car that has been the standard for the last 6 years.

Posted at 2:08 am on Mar 6th, 2008 by Eric

FIRST is a great competition. i was on my schools team for the 98 and 99 seasons and got to go as alumni to the 00 chamionships in Epcot Center. AWSOME EXPERIENCE! Reccomend it to anyone who has technical know-how.

Posted at 8:05 am on Mar 6th, 2008 by phatman81

bah, don’t know our team number, but…
go go go OFA Robotics!

Posted at 4:33 pm on Mar 6th, 2008 by miNO

team 451 CAT ATTACK!!!
you should come to Pittsburgh next week we’ll save you a seat! That is if were not all asleep (leaving at 4 am to get there) or drilling holes in our robot to get it under weight

Posted at 9:44 pm on Mar 6th, 2008 by Alex

FIRST Robotics also at Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester NY. Stop out if in area.

Posted at 12:05 pm on Mar 7th, 2008 by Chuck

Hey… thanks… so much for the shirt it was so exciting to see you

thanks

STAG Robotics
Bishop Miege H.S.

2007 Greater Kansas City Regional Winner

Posted at 7:57 pm on Mar 7th, 2008 by Barry Preston