What is unique about the FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®) program?
FRC is a mentor-based program that bears more similarity to the Westinghouse Science Award where students work hand-in-hand with renouned researchers, rather than a local science fair where students are expected to work alone. FIRST encourages many different approaches to building a team. An all-student driven program can work just as well as the more typical student-mentor co-operative, but remember that the FIRST Robotics Competition is a professional mentor-based program, so recruit and involve mentors to consult, advise, and directly work with the students as much as possible. We’re striving to expose students to the professional working world and make heros of the engineers responsible for designing the technical world we live in. FRC rewards students for building partnerships that last, excellence in design, demonstrated team spirit, gracious professionalism and maturity, and the ability to overcome obstacles. Scoring the most points is a secondary goal. • It is a sport where the
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