Announcements
The 2011/12 season Fall meetings are on Monday and Wednesday nights from 6 to 8 PM at the Robotics Center (see map on calendar page). Let the mentors know which night you plan to regularly attend.
Students should add themselves to the Student email group using the form on the Contacts page so you can receive future announcements.
Autodesk Inventor now available to all students! This year, Autodesk is not restricting the number of licenses per team. To download your own copy (for educational purposes), register at http://autodesk.com/first and then go to the download page.
Check out the FRC Email Blast Archive for the latest FIRST announcements.
Welcome to the FIRST Team 231 Website!
What is the FIRST Robotics Competition?
FIRST is an acronym for: "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology". The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an annual extra curricular activity for High School students to design, build, and operate point-scoring robots with help from community mentors.
What do we do?
The FRC challenges our
team and it's
mentors to develop a robot designed to complete a given task using a standard
"kit of parts", given to every team, and a common set of rules. We meet weekly
during the fall season to learn about engineering, safety, problem solving, and
team building. On the first Saturday of January, FIRST holds the kick-off event,
which is attended by all of the teams that are in the area. At this event FIRST
reveals the eagerly awaited game which varies widely each year and is as
unpredictable as tornado's, you never know what the brains of FIRST will come up
with. We are also given the "kit of parts" ,and the rule book. Before we leave
the event the game has already begun, from then on it's six weeks of late nights
and early Saturday meetings. This time is referred to as the build season. When
the six weeks build period is complete the robot must be completed and shipped
away, never to be seen again until Regionals and then hopefully at Nationals.
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