Las Vegas News - Important Documents 11/11/06
Las Vegas FIRST Regional Robotic Competition Lodging Recomendation
FIRST Robotics Competition
About Us
The FIRST Robotics Competition 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 will reach over 28,000 high-school-aged young people on over 1,125 teams in 33 regional events. Our 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 provide scholarships to our participants. 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.
How to Get Involved!
Start a Team!
"The secret of building a successful team is not to assemble the largest team possible, but rather to assemble a team that can work well together." Dean Kamen, Founder of FIRST.
We feel it is important that you learn all you can about FIRST and the robotics competition before committing to forming a team. The single best way to do this is to find a local team or two, and follow their progress through a competition season. Attending a regional competition will allow you to guage the impact of the competition for yourself. You can meet with the team leaders and students, speak with their sponsors, and see the robots first-hand.
Once you are ready to start an FRC team at your school, your job is to form the partnerships you will need with team mentors and sponsors. Local manufacturing and technology companies are ideal candidates for mentors and sponsorship, as are local colleges, universities and technical schools. Many local chapters of professional organizations support FIRST through volunteer help from their engineers, scientists and technologists. If you are unsure where to start, please Contact Us.
Starting a Team
We recommend you download this ASME "Guide to Starting a FIRST Team." It will take you from deciding to participate through competition preparation. You will also learn how you can become an ASME member.
If you still have questions, please check out the FIRST Robotics Frequently asked questions about starting a team