Английская Википедия:FIRST Robotics Competition

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox sports league FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work during a six-week period to build robots capable of competing in that year's game that weigh up to Шаблон:Convert. Robots complete tasks such as scoring balls into goals, placing inner tubes onto racks, hanging on bars, and balancing robots on balance beams. The game, along with the required set of tasks, changes annually. While teams are given a kit of a standard set of parts during the annual Kickoff, they are also allowed and encouraged to buy or fabricate specialized parts. FIRST Robotics Competition is one of five robotics competition programs organized by FIRST, the other four being FIRST LEGO League Discover, FIRST LEGO League Explore, FIRST LEGO League Challenge, and FIRST Tech Challenge.

The culture of FIRST Robotics Competition is 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. The goal of the program is to inspire students to be science and technology leaders.

2022 was the 31st year of the competition. 3,225 teams, including more than 80,000 students and 25,000 mentors from 26 countries, built robots. The 2022 season included 58 Regional Competitions, 90 District Qualifying Competitions, and 11 District Championships. In 2022, over 450 teams won slots to attend the FIRST Championship event, where they competed in a tournament. In addition to on-field competition, teams and team members competed for awards recognizing entrepreneurship, creativity, engineering, industrial design, safety, controls, media, quality, and exemplifying the core values of the program. As a result of COVID-19, the amount of active teams decreased during the 2021 season; however, numbers began to increase during the 2022 season.

As of 2023, there were 3,300 high school teams with approximately 83,000 high schoolers across 31 countries competing.

Most teams reside in the United States, with Canada, Turkey, Mexico, Israel, China, and Australia contributing significant numbers of teams.

History

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1992: Maize Craze

FIRST was founded in 1989 by inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen, with inspiration and assistance from physicist and MIT professor emeritus Woodie Flowers. Kamen was disappointed with the number of kids—particularly women and minorities—who did not consider science and technology careers and decided to do something about it. As an inventor, he looked for activities that captured the enthusiasm of students and decided that combining the excitement of sports competition with science and technology had the potential to inspire students.

Distilling what sports had done right into a recipe for engaging young people, Kamen says, turned out to be relatively straightforward. "It's after school, not in school. It's aspirational, not required," he explained to me.

"You don't get quizzes and tests, you go into competitions and get trophies and letters. You don't have teachers, you have coaches. You nurture, you don't judge. You create teamwork between all the participants. We justify sports for teamwork but why, when we do it in the classroom, do we call it cheating?"

Most of all, it was a nonjudgmental space, where in contrast science and math in traditional educational settings had been soured with embarrassment and uncertainty.

Kamen has stated that FIRST is the invention he feels most proud of and predicts that participants will be responsible for significant technological advances in years to come. The first FIRST Robotics Competition season was in 1992 and had one event at a high school gymnasium in New Hampshire. That first competition was relatively small-scale, similar in size to today's FIRST Tech Challenge and Vex Robotics Competition games. Robots relied on a wired connection to receive data from drivers; in the following year, it quickly transitioned to a wireless system.

Teams

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A New York City FIRST Robotics Team at a Greater DC Regional with their robot (Hunter College High School-3419)

3,225 teams from 26 countries competed in 2022 Rapid React. Of these, 2,859 are "veteran teams" (meaning they have competed in a previous season), and 176 are "rookie teams" (meaning that 2022 was their first season of competition).

The countries represented are listed below: (in decreasing order of number of teams as of 2022)

• United States of America (2,646)
• Canada (175)
• Turkey (105)
• Mexico (76)
• Israel (63)
• China (49)
• Australia (35)
• Chinese Taipei (35)
• Brazil (12)
• India (5)
• Netherlands (4)
• Dominican Republic (3)
• France (3)
• Japan (3)
• United Kingdom (2)
• Poland (2)
• Chile (2)
• Kazakhstan (2)
• New Zealand (2)
• Singapore (2)
• Libya (1)
• Ukraine (1)
• Argentina (1)
• Colombia (1)
• Czech Republic (1)
• Germany (1)
• Indonesia (1)
• South Africa (1)
• Switzerland (1)
• Vietnam (1)

Competition

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The FIRST Championship has been held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas since 2017 and will continue to be held there through 2025.

FIRST Championship

Шаблон:Main The FIRST Championship is the culmination of the FIRST Robotics Competition season, and occurs in late April each year. Roughly 800 teams participated in two Championship events in 2018, held in April in Houston, Texas and Detroit, Michigan. After the 2022 championships concluded FIRST announced that the world championship would take place at a single location, Houston, Texas, for the 2023 and 2024 seasons.

Media exposure

The PBS documentary "Gearing Up" followed four teams through the 2008 season.

In the television series Dean of Invention, Dean Kamen made appeals promoting FIRST prior to commercial breaks.

In 2008, FRC Team 1114, Simbotics, was featured in an ongoing storyline on the hit Canadian TV drama "Degrassi: Next Generation". Team 1114's 2006-2007 world champion VEX robot made an appearance, as well as their 2008 world champion FRC robot.

During the 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition season, FIRST team 3132, Thunder Down Under, was followed by a Macquarie University student film crew to document the first year of FIRST Robotics Competition in Australia. The crew produced a documentary film called I, Wombot. The film premiered during the 2011 Dungog Film Festival.

A book called The New Cool was written by Neal Bascomb about the story of Team 1717 from Goleta, California as they competed in the 2009 game season. A movie adaptation directed by Michael Bacall is being produced.

The CNN documentary "Don't Fail Me: Education in America", which aired on May 15, 2011, followed three FIRST Robotics Competition teams during the 2011 season. The documentary profiled one student from each team, covering different geographic and socioeconomic levels: Shaan Patel from Team 1403 Cougar Robotics, Maria Castro from Team 842 Falcon Robotics, and Brian Whited from Team 3675 Eagletrons.

On August 14, 2011, ABC aired a special on FIRST called "i.am FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll" that featured many famous musical artists such as The Black Eyed Peas and Willow Smith. will.i.am himself was the executive producer of the special. The program placed a special focus on the FIRST Robotics competition, even though it included segments on the FIRST Tech Challenge, FIRST LEGO League, and FIRST LEGO League Jr.

From 1996 to 1998, the FIRST Championship was covered by ESPN.

For the 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, five FIRST Robotics Competition teams and their robots led the parade, with one robot cutting the ribbon and the others shooting confetti.

In the 2014 movie Transformers: Age of Extinction, a FIRST Robotics Competition Robot built by Team 2468, Team Appreciate, for the 2012 Season was featured in Cade Yeager's garage shooting the foam basketball game pieces from Rebound Rumble.

The 2015 Kickoff was, for the first time, broadcast by NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast, and was available via OnDemand for the month of January 2015.

In 2016, Christina Li, a member of Team 217, the ThunderChickens, was spotlighted on an episode of Nickelodeon's The Halo Effect entitled "Hello World". A coding camp that Li organized for young girls was featured on the episode, and 217's robot from the 2015 season made an appearance.

The fourth season of The Fosters (2013 TV series) had several episodes featuring characters competing in a regional FIRST Robotics Competition competition, most notably episode 8 "Girl Code".

In June 2018, HBO aired a Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel episode, which in a segment, the correspondent Soledad O'Brien interviewed Dean Kamen about FIRST and FIRST Robotics Competition and then later interviewed students from various FRC teams.

The February 25, 2020 episode of the ABC sitcom Black-ish features recurring character, Jack Johnson, joining a FIRST team—and a cameo by Dean Kamen.

Episode 6 in the second season of the Netflix original series Trinkets featured a FIRST Robotics Competition competition.

On March 18, 2022, Disney+ released a documentary directed by Gillian Jacobs titled "More than Robots", which follows four teams in the 2020 season, leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Notable people

Alumni

• Emma Dumont
• Imraan Faruque
• Dylan Field
• Amanda Randles

Employees and volunteers

• Joseph Bouchard
• Michael Dubno
• Amber Gell
• Marc Hodosh, entrepreneur, chairman of the Boston FIRST Robotics Competition competition
• Mark Leon, NASA researcher and Master of Ceremonies for several FIRST Robotics Competition events
• David Siegel

Mentors

• Amir Abo-Shaeer (Team 1717), teacher and engineer, subject of The New Cool
• Emma Dumont
• Maor Farid
• Patrick Freivald (Team 1551)
• Grant Imahara (Team 841), engineer and roboticist, former cast member of MythBusters
• Dave Lavery (Team 116), NASA scientist and former member of the FIRST Robotics Competition Game Design Committee
• Nic Radford (Team 118)
• Nancy Yasecko (Team 233)

Games

Year	Theme	Number of participants	Number of teams	Number of official events
1992	Maize Craze		28
1993	Rug Rage		25
1994	Tower Power		43
1995	Ramp 'n Roll		59
1996	Hexagon Havoc		94
1997	Toroid Terror		151
1998	Ladder Logic		199
1999	Double Trouble		271
2000	Co-Opertition FIRST		372
2001	Diabolical Dynamics		515
2002	Zone Zeal		642
2003	Stack Attack		787
2004	FIRST Frenzy: Raising the Bar		927
2005	Triple Play	25,000	991
2006	Aim High		1,133	33
2007	Rack 'n Roll	32,675	1,307	37
2008	FIRST Overdrive	38,000 (est.)	1,501
2009	Lunacy	42,000+	1,683	49
2010	Breakaway	45,000+	1,808	53
2011	Logo Motion	51,000+	2,072	59
2012	Rebound Rumble	59,000+	2,343	70
2013	Ultimate Ascent	63,000+	2,546	78
2014	Aerial Assist	68,000	2,727	99
2015	Recycle Rush	72,500 (est.)	2,900	110
2016	FIRST Stronghold	78,500	3,140	127
2017	FIRST Steamworks	84,000	3,357	146
2018	FIRST Power Up	91,500	3,660	160
2019	Destination: Deep Space	95,050	3,802	175
2020	Infinite Recharge	97,850	3,914	52Шаблон:Efn
2021	Infinite Recharge (2021)	52,340	3,079	0Шаблон:Efn
2022	Rapid React	70,800+	3,225	159
2023	Charged Up	83,600+	3,286	176
2024	Crescendo

Sources

• Michigan robotics champs off to world finals in St. Louis- Detroit Free Press
• FIRST Robotics Competition’s 2011 Regional Season Is Worth a Look - PCWorld

External links

• Шаблон:Official website
• NASA FIRST Robotics Competition site