NASA Sponsors Antelope Valley’s Inaugural FIRST Robotics Competition
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Channel: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center · 2018 · Science & Technology
The Antelope Valley hosted its inaugural FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) on April 6-7, 2018, in the gymnasium of Eastside High School in Lancaster, California. The regional competition “Aerospace Valley Regional” serves as a championship-qualifying robotics competition and is sponsored by NASA, Lockheed, Northrup, Boeing and several other local organizations. An estimated 500 to 700 high-school students on 35 teams from around the world, competed in the regional’s 2018 season challenge, “FIRST POWER UP.” The "FIRST POWER UP" game pairs two alliances of video game characters with their human operators as they work to defeat a "boss" to escape an arcade game where they are trapped inside. Each match begins with a 15-second autonomous period in which robots operate only on pre-programmed instructions. During this period, robots work to earn points according to the game's rules. During the remaining two minutes and 15 seconds, student drivers’ control robots to earn points. For more information about NASA’s involvement with the FIRST Robotics Competition, click here: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/first-robotics-index.html
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