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FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students and mentors work during a six-week period to build game-playing robots that weigh up to 120 pounds (54 kg).[6] Robots complete tasks such as scoring balls into goals, flying discs into goals, inner tubes onto racks, hanging on bars, and balancing robots on balance beams. The game changes yearly, keeping the excitement fresh and giving each team a more level playing field. While teams are given a standard set of parts, they are also allowed a budget and encouraged to buy or make specialized parts. FRC is one of four robotics competition programs organized by FIRST.

FRC has a unique culture, built around two values. Gracious Professionalism embraces the competition inherent in the program, but rejects trash talk and chest-thumping, instead embracing empathy and respect for other teams. Coopertition emphasizes that teams can cooperate and compete at the same time.[7] The goal of the program is to inspire students to be science and technology leaders.
In 2016, the 25th year of competition, 3128 teams with roughly 75,000 students and 19,000 mentors from 24 countries built robots. They competed in 53 Regional Competitions, 65 District Qualifying Competitions, and 8 District Championships. 600 teams will win slots to attend the FIRST Championship, where they will competed in a tournament. In addition to on-field competition, teams and team members compete for awards recognizing entrepreneurship, creativity, engineering, industrial design, safety, controls, media, quality, and exemplifying the core values of the program.
Most teams reside in the United States, with Canada, Israel, and Mexico contributing significant numbers of teams.
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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Our mission
    • Team Members
    • History
    • Community Outreach
    • In The News
    • Awards >
      • 2016 >
        • Rookie All-Star Award
        • Highest Rookie Seed Award
      • 2017 >
        • Judges' Award
    • Entrepreneurship Award
    • FTC 11422 >
      • Richmond Qualifier
      • Shenandoah Qualifier
  • Media
    • All Photos >
      • 2015
      • 2016 >
        • Blacksburg Competition 2016
        • Portsmouth Competition 2016
        • District Championship
        • Rumble In The Roads 2016
        • Pancake Breakfast
      • 2017 >
        • Build Season
        • Blacksburg Competition
        • Central VA Competition
        • District Championship
        • Science After Dark
        • Martinsville Race
        • Trivia Night
        • National Advocacy Conference
        • Summer Governor's School
        • MARS Competition
        • Rumble in the Roads 2017
        • 2018 >
          • Build Season 2018
          • District Championship
    • 2019 >
      • Build Season
    • All Videos
    • Founding Fathers
  • Sponsors
  • FRC
    • What is FRC?
    • LInks
  • Blog
  • Calendar
    • Schedule
  • Contact us