This past spring I attended the FRC North Carolina State Championships and got to talk to a bunch of the teams. If you've never heard of FIRST Robotics, you're in for a real treat, because this competition is AWESOME.

These teams, thousands of them, have only about 2 months to design, build, and test robots to play a brand new game before the competitions begin, and then their work is put to the test! It would be a lot for any professional engineer, but these kids are still in high school! It's pretty incredible.

Stay tuned for all of the individual pit interviews!

If you're interested in finding a team or attending an event, here's the official team search from FIRST:
https://www.firstinspires.org/team-ev...
And if you want to know more about any specific team (like a link to their website) you can probably find it on Blue Alliance:
https://www.thebluealliance.com/

If you're looking to help a team as a mentor, volunteer, or sponsor:
https://www.firstinspires.org/support

If you're specifically interested in one of the teams I mentioned or featured, here are links to them all!
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435, Robodogs
https://www.robodogs.org/
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451, The Cat Attack
http://thecatattack.org/
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587, The Hedgehogs
https://www.team587.org/
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2059, The Hitchikers
https://team2059.org/blog/
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2642, Pitt Pirates
http://www.pittpiratesrobotics.com/
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3737, Roto Raptors
https://rotoraptors.wixsite.com/team3737
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5727, OmegaBytes
http://omegabytes.org/
  / omegabytes5727  
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6502, Darc Side
https://6502.team/
https://www.da.org/thedaexperience/up...
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7443, Overhills Jag-Wires
  / jagwires7443  
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8634, Bootstraps!
https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/...
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8727, Glitch 2.0
https://www.glitch8727.com/
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(if anybody watching this is FROM one of these teams and wants me to change/update/add a link, let me know!)


Music in this video:
I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626

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