FIRST Robotics Competition in the Valley - Feb 19

What: 2006 AIM HIGH PreShip Scrimmage
When: Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Where: HighTechHigh-LA/Birmingham HS gyms, 17111 Victory Blvd. Lake Balboa, CA 91406

Contact: Event Director: Wendy Wooten, Team 4
ms.wooten@hthla.org or wwooten@lausd.k12.ca.us
(818)267-4589 (cell) (818)341-2837 late evenings

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What is the FIRST Robotics Competition

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.

Link: First Robotics Web Site
Link: Related Posts on Robots
Link: Photos of FIRST Competitions
Link: Books on Building Robots

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