FIRST Tech Challenge
Teams of middle and high school-aged students are challenged to design, build, and program a robot to play a floor game against other teams’ creations
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Grades 4-8
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Grades 7-12
FIRST Robotics Competition
Grades 9-12
The excitement of sports + the rigors of science and technology.
“It’s more than robots.“
– FOUNDER, DEAN KAMEN
FIRST TECH CHALLENGE
Designed for middle- and high-school age students who want to compete head to head using a sports model. Teams design, build, and program their robots to compete on a 12 X 12’ field in an Alliance format against and with other teams.
Robots are built using a TETRIX® or MATRIX® kit of parts that is reusable from year-to-year, usingusing a variety of levels of Java-based programming. Teams, including Coaches and Mentors develop strategy and build robots based on sound engineering principles.
2019-2020 STAR WARS-INSPIRED CHALLENGE
SKYSTONE
This year’s game is part of the 2019-2020 FIRST season, FIRST RISE, powered by Star Wars: Force for Change.
In SKYSTONE, teams work in an alliance to build a superstructure within a burgeoning future city. The object of the game is to attain a higher score than the opposing alliance by repositioning their foundation in their building site; delivering stones from the loading zone to the building zone; placing stones on their foundation; and navigating their robots under their segment of the bridge. Teams must program their robots to play in three sections: autonomous, driver-controlled, and the end game. The game is completed as teams move their structures into their optimal space, topping it off with a crown achievement – a final capstone of their own design to symbolize their reach into the sky.
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2019-2020 FTC REGIONAL EVENTS IN CALIFORNIA
Mar 1, 2020
San Diego
FTC Regional
Francis Parker School
San Diego, CA
Mar 7, 2020
Los Angeles FTC
Regional
Monrovia High School
Monrovia, CA
Mar 7-8, 2020
Northern California
FTC Regional
Independence High School
San Jose, CA
Apr 15 – Apr 18
FIRST Championship
George R. Brown Convention Center
Houston, TX
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