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. (If you haven't seen the hub video for all these interviews, check it out first!    • The annual engineering puzzle with 3,...  )

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.

This video is the complete pit interview with FIRST Team 8727. Enjoy!
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To join or support team 8727:
https://www.glitch8727.com/
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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/
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This is a world map that shows events and teams. I'm not sure how accurate it is because it doesn't look official, but it's a lot easier to search by eye! (and it also doesn't include the other FIRST programs like FLL and FTC (FRC was featured in the video))
https://frcmap.com/
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If you're looking to help a team as a mentor, volunteer, or sponsor:
https://www.firstinspires.org/support
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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