Welcome back for another year of First Robotics Canada! This is the UPS Battery Center’s second year covering this competition and we are very excited to take you along this journey!
In the next few months, we will be providing you with posts about exciting tournament updates and about a few teams that are competing such as Hayden Robotics!
What’s The Hype About?
We wrote a little post about the 2017 Competition at the beginning of the year but if you missed that, don’t worry we’re written another description for you:
First Robotics is the highest level of robotics competition offered by FIRST. It is for high-schoolers of ages 15-18 who have an interest in working with teams to make some of the most impressive robots ever! They get 6 weeks to build their robots which have to be 5 feet tall, 140 pounds and able to take pressure in the intensely-fun robot sports! First Robotics Canada 2018 has competitions happening in 4 of Canada’s provinces: Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia!
The competition has a different theme every year. Last year’s theme was Steamworks. However, this year, the theme is “Power Up” as in the context of video games!
Check out the video below for the 2018 competition teaser:
Benefits:
The First Robotics competition is a pack of fun for sure. However, competitors get some life-long benefits besides all of that fun. These include:
- Learning from professional engineers how to build and compete with a robot of their own design
- Learning and using sophisticated software and hardware
- Competing and cooperating in alliances and tournaments
- Earning a place in the World Championship
- Qualifying for over $12 million in college scholarships!
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Upcoming events:
The Scarborough Expo: Dec 1-Jan 31. Stay tuned for updates about that!
Thanks for reading! Do you know anyone that is competing at the competition? Is your school competing? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below!
Related:
Get Steamy with Robotics at First Robotics
A Profile on Two Hayden Robotics Students
Hayden High School Participates in First Robotics Competition
