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IRST, or For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is an organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1989 in order to develop ways to inspire students in engineering and technology fields. The organization is the foundation for the FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST LEGO League, Junior FIRST Lego League, and FIRST Tech Challenge competitions.
FIRST also operates FIRST Place, a research facility at FIRST Headquarters in Manchester, New Hampshire where it holds educational programs and day camps for students and teachers.
FIRST seeks to promote a philosophy of teamwork and collaboration among engineers and encourages competing teams to remain friendly, helping each other out when necessary. The term frequently applied to this ethos is “gracious professionalism,” a term coined by Woodie Flowers which supports respect towards one’s competitors and integrity in one’s actions.
The first program developed through FIRST was the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), which is designed to inspire high school students to become engineers by giving them real world experience working with professional engineers to develop a robot. The inaugural FIRST Robotics Competition was held in 1992 in the Manchester Memorial High School gymnasium.[5] As of 2008[update], over 1500 high school teams totaling over 37,000 students from Brazil, Canada, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United States, the United Kingdom[2], and more compete in the annual competition. The competition challenge changes each year, and the teams can only reuse certain components from previous years. The robots weigh around 120 lb (54 kg), depending on that year’s rules. The kit issued to each team contains a base set of parts. Registration and the kit of parts together cost about US$6000. In addition to that, teams are allowed to spend another $3500 on their robot. The purpose of this rule is to lessen the influence of money on teams’ competitiveness. Details of the game are released on the first Saturday in January, and the teams are given six weeks to construct a robot that can accomplish the game’s tasks.[6] In 2008, teams participated in 41[7] regional competitions throughout March in an effort to qualify for the FIRST Championship in Atlanta, Georgia in April. Previous years’ Championships have been held in Houston, Texas and at Walt Disney World’s Epcot.[8]. Each year the First Robotics Competition has scholarships for the participants in the program. In 2008 there was $9.8 million worth of scholarships from 108 colleges and universities, associations, and corporations.
In February 2008, KETC Channel 9 of St. Louis, Missouri announced that production had started for a film documenting several teams’ journeys through First Robotics Competitions [1].
In 1998, the FIRST Lego League (FLL), a program similar to the FIRST Robotics Competition, was formed. It is aimed at 9 to 16-year-old students and utilizes Lego Mindstorms sets (NXT or RCX) to build palm-sized Lego robots, which are then programmed using the ROBOLAB software to autonomously compete against other teams[9]. The ROBOLAB software is based on National Instruments’ LabVIEW industrial control engineering software. The combination of interchangeable Lego parts, computer ‘bricks’, sensors, and the aforementioned software, provide preteens and teenagers with the capability to build reasonably complex models of real-life robotic systems.[citation needed] This competition also utilizes a research element that is themed with each year’s game, and deals with a real-world situation for students to learn about through the season.
The FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), formerly FIRST Vex Challenge (FVC), is a mid-level robotics competition announced by FIRST on March 22, 2005. According to FIRST, this competition was designed to be a more accessible and affordable option for schools. FIRST has also said that the FTC program was created for those of an intermediate skill level. FIRST Tech Challenge robots are approximately one-third the scale of their FRC counterparts. The FTC competition is meant to provide a transition for students from the FLL competition to the FRC competition. FTC was developed for the Vex Robotics Design System, which is available commercially.[10]
The 2005 FVC pilot season featured a demonstration of the FIRST Vex Challenge using a 1/3 linear scale mock-up of the 2004 FRC Competition, FIRST Frenzy: Raising the Bar. For their 2005-2006 Pilot Season, FVC teams played the Half-Pipe Hustle game using racquet balls and ramps.
For the 2006-2007 FTC Season, the FIRST Tech Challenge teams competed in the Hangin’-A-Round challenge using softballs, rotating platforms, a hanging bar, and a larger ‘Atlas’ ball which is significantly larger than most Vex robots and harder to manipulate.[11][12] Competitions were held around the United States, Canada, and Mexico.[13]
For the 2008-2009 FTC season, a new kit was introduced, as FIRST moved away from the VEX platform and worked with several different vendors to create a custom kit and control system for FTC. Based around the LEGO Mindstorms NXT “brain” and including secondary specialized controllers to overcome the limitations of the NXT, teams use a Bluetooth link between the NXT and a laptop running FTC driver station software. A team’s drivers then use either one or two USB gamepads to control their robots.
Each year during his speech at the kickoff event, founder Dean Kamen gives the student participants a homework assignment. It often involves spreading the word about FIRST in various ways, such as increasing attendance at regionals (2005)[14], mentoring rookie teams, making sure that FIRST-specific scholarships are applied for (2004)[15], and researching the capabilities of motors and disseminating that information to other teams (2006)[16]. In 2007, Dean’s homework was for each team to contact their government officials (e.g. mayors, legislators, governors, federal officials) and invite them to a FIRST regional or the championship to expose them to the competition and increase the level of political awareness of FIRST. In 2008, it was to inform the media more about FIRST. Any responses (or lack thereof) would be publicly posted on the FIRST Q&A forum.[17]
The efforts to attract political attention to FIRST in 2007 were quite successful, with visits to regional including the US Secretary of Commerce, 4 US Senators, 8 members of Congress, 4 state governors, 7 mayors, and a deputy Prime Minister. Following the FIRST Championship Event in Atlanta in April, the championship winners of the Chairman’s Award in the FRC (#365), FTC (#801), and FLL competitions were invited to the White House to demonstrate their robots to President Bush and members of Congress. Further, FIRST President Paul Gudonis was invited to testify before the Congressional Committee on Education and Labor about FIRST’s achievements and goals.[18]
In 2008, former President of the United States George Herbert Walker Bush spoke at the World Championship in Atlanta.
Yeah, okay. Just type “FIRST~!” like all the other morons who do it so we can get it out of the way.
Wow, that’s even more annoying than just saying first.
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I just don’t get what these morons like about typing “FIRST!” all of the time. Who cares?
Soooo, what’s your point? Do you have one?
Yep, its on top of your head. Just look in the mirror and then go back into your corner. “FIST”ers (not a typo) are morons that have NO point. They are is such a rush to stake their claim, but have nothing to say, much like this moron.
Not you, necrosage2005, that Breaker at the top of the stack. Oh, great! Now people who have nothing to say and insist on saying it ad infinitum can annoy people without confronting them face-to-face. I guess they’re easier to ignore this way.
Sorry, Schmoe. I thought that you meant me.
Damn that was dumb.
Yeah, except that it’s not.
No kidding. This is one of the stupidest pictures on here in long time. Colbert’s hilarious, but call it what it is. It’s still a satire. Hardly a credible news source.
The line said it is comedy, but is more credible *than* news, not *is* news, which is accurate because the definition of satire(which is where their comedy comes from) is to get comedy from the ridiculous in real life, perfect for cutting through spin.
That is an unbelievably stupid conclusion. I suppose you think SNL is a great news source too, then.
Yeah, I must say that I am a proud member of the Colbert Nation but I totally disagree.
First, CR is not a “news show”. It’s an editorial/satire of news shows. They don’t send reporters out to find news, they recycle stories that they get from everybody else and make fun of them. Entertaining yes, “news” no.
Second, “credible”? What in the world is that based on? Even bias that is wrapped in satire is still bias.
Fox News is comedy too (in fact that’s how it’s sold outside the US).
All news is comedy. There fixed that for ya.
Except CNN, unless you count schadenfreude.
“FAUX news is the ebil, CNN is teh truth”
haha that’s pathetic.
/passes you the dictionary
All of the 24 hour news networks are businesses, and focused on one thing, selling ad space. To believe anything other than that is naivety at its finest and worst, at the same time. CNN, MSNBC, FOX, they’re all trying to get viewers, and they’re catering the stories and the methods with which they put out those stories to a specific demographic that they know follow their stations. CNN is just as “bad” as Fox, but I wouldn’t expect you to admit that here.
Well put. Seriously, best comment on this page.
Not exactly.
All News Corp output is “focused” on pushing Murdoch’s political agenda as far as people will tolerate in a given market.
Most parts of the world have a low tolerance for that kind of BS so News Corp attempts to put out something that approximates a real news service.
In the US a segment of the population laps it up so you get… Fox News.
There is a reason News Corp does not broadcast Fox outside of America and actively tries to stop the rebroadcast of Fox News content. They don’t want anyone to see it from the outside.
Seriously, where do you get this from? Have you heard of Sky News? Probably not, because the only things you do hear are what YOUR favorite news source tells YOU. Come back when you have a truly objective opinion.
I think it’s more a comment on the fact that mainstream American news has no worth whatsoever. Except to make people even dumber and less informed.
Not to mention manipulate them to believe in whatever said network’s agenda is. Very well said bfordc.
I loved him when he was in Strangers with Candy.
I’m so happy that everything is spelled correctly ;_;
My how our standards have fell…
I think the person who made this gets confused about Colbert and Stuart.
Except he has writers do all his work.
He is the head writer, and a long time member of the writers guild.
What makes his show “more credible?”
Because it makes liberals laugh. That means it’s true.
TOO LATE, JIM PREEMPTIVELY STRUCK YOU!
There is some measure of truth in every satire.
He has waaaaay more credibility than CNN, Fox News, MSNBC or any other news network. Those channels have devolved so much that they’re basically the tabloids of television.
Stewart > Colbert
Stewart was the master, Colbert was the student.
there is no win in leaving the daily show then coping exactly what he’s been doing for years.
Not exactly copied. Jon has some aspects that are his and his alone, whereas Stephen has some of the same. They do have some very similar aspects as well, which is due to the aforementioned coming from the Daily Show then making another show. But the biggest difference is that Jon just does his thing, reporting his stuff, whereas Stephen is making the concerted effort to put it in the face of right wingers by being the “radical right wing” viewpoint in a satirical delivery, and specifically mimicking O’Reilly’s style to twist the knife just a little bit more.
Eugh. Such a terrible show.
U LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Funny? Yes.
Credible? Not really.
not funny, not credible
preemptive attack troll is preemptive
He’s not supposed to be credible, he’s supposed to just be a comedy show. Yet, despite this, he reports more news and better news, more accurately, than the mainstream ‘news’.
Does this help?
I agree. <3 Colbert. For those who say he is biased, well of course he is! That's why the show is funny! But really, how come there is no impartial journalism in America?
For the record, win is a bit of an understatement. Too bad there is no word to describe it’s degree of win… Colbert is awesome.
Colbert is awesome. So is Fox News for all the other news networks being mad at them!
Preemptive troll is WAAAAAAY ahead of you!
I’m not afraid.
Its not “supposed’ to be, it is comedy.
Colbert sucks
I support any news network who isn’t afraid of exposing the stupidity of my owner. I’m tired of taking the blame for that moron.
I’ll bet Colbert would make a better boss. And I wouldn’t have to work as much.
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November 19, 2009 at 7:21 am
IRST, or For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is an organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1989 in order to develop ways to inspire students in engineering and technology fields. The organization is the foundation for the FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST LEGO League, Junior FIRST Lego League, and FIRST Tech Challenge competitions.
FIRST also operates FIRST Place, a research facility at FIRST Headquarters in Manchester, New Hampshire where it holds educational programs and day camps for students and teachers.
FIRST seeks to promote a philosophy of teamwork and collaboration among engineers and encourages competing teams to remain friendly, helping each other out when necessary. The term frequently applied to this ethos is “gracious professionalism,” a term coined by Woodie Flowers which supports respect towards one’s competitors and integrity in one’s actions.
The first program developed through FIRST was the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), which is designed to inspire high school students to become engineers by giving them real world experience working with professional engineers to develop a robot. The inaugural FIRST Robotics Competition was held in 1992 in the Manchester Memorial High School gymnasium.[5] As of 2008[update], over 1500 high school teams totaling over 37,000 students from Brazil, Canada, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United States, the United Kingdom[2], and more compete in the annual competition. The competition challenge changes each year, and the teams can only reuse certain components from previous years. The robots weigh around 120 lb (54 kg), depending on that year’s rules. The kit issued to each team contains a base set of parts. Registration and the kit of parts together cost about US$6000. In addition to that, teams are allowed to spend another $3500 on their robot. The purpose of this rule is to lessen the influence of money on teams’ competitiveness. Details of the game are released on the first Saturday in January, and the teams are given six weeks to construct a robot that can accomplish the game’s tasks.[6] In 2008, teams participated in 41[7] regional competitions throughout March in an effort to qualify for the FIRST Championship in Atlanta, Georgia in April. Previous years’ Championships have been held in Houston, Texas and at Walt Disney World’s Epcot.[8]. Each year the First Robotics Competition has scholarships for the participants in the program. In 2008 there was $9.8 million worth of scholarships from 108 colleges and universities, associations, and corporations.
In February 2008, KETC Channel 9 of St. Louis, Missouri announced that production had started for a film documenting several teams’ journeys through First Robotics Competitions [1].
In 1998, the FIRST Lego League (FLL), a program similar to the FIRST Robotics Competition, was formed. It is aimed at 9 to 16-year-old students and utilizes Lego Mindstorms sets (NXT or RCX) to build palm-sized Lego robots, which are then programmed using the ROBOLAB software to autonomously compete against other teams[9]. The ROBOLAB software is based on National Instruments’ LabVIEW industrial control engineering software. The combination of interchangeable Lego parts, computer ‘bricks’, sensors, and the aforementioned software, provide preteens and teenagers with the capability to build reasonably complex models of real-life robotic systems.[citation needed] This competition also utilizes a research element that is themed with each year’s game, and deals with a real-world situation for students to learn about through the season.
The FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), formerly FIRST Vex Challenge (FVC), is a mid-level robotics competition announced by FIRST on March 22, 2005. According to FIRST, this competition was designed to be a more accessible and affordable option for schools. FIRST has also said that the FTC program was created for those of an intermediate skill level. FIRST Tech Challenge robots are approximately one-third the scale of their FRC counterparts. The FTC competition is meant to provide a transition for students from the FLL competition to the FRC competition. FTC was developed for the Vex Robotics Design System, which is available commercially.[10]
The 2005 FVC pilot season featured a demonstration of the FIRST Vex Challenge using a 1/3 linear scale mock-up of the 2004 FRC Competition, FIRST Frenzy: Raising the Bar. For their 2005-2006 Pilot Season, FVC teams played the Half-Pipe Hustle game using racquet balls and ramps.
For the 2006-2007 FTC Season, the FIRST Tech Challenge teams competed in the Hangin’-A-Round challenge using softballs, rotating platforms, a hanging bar, and a larger ‘Atlas’ ball which is significantly larger than most Vex robots and harder to manipulate.[11][12] Competitions were held around the United States, Canada, and Mexico.[13]
For the 2008-2009 FTC season, a new kit was introduced, as FIRST moved away from the VEX platform and worked with several different vendors to create a custom kit and control system for FTC. Based around the LEGO Mindstorms NXT “brain” and including secondary specialized controllers to overcome the limitations of the NXT, teams use a Bluetooth link between the NXT and a laptop running FTC driver station software. A team’s drivers then use either one or two USB gamepads to control their robots.
Each year during his speech at the kickoff event, founder Dean Kamen gives the student participants a homework assignment. It often involves spreading the word about FIRST in various ways, such as increasing attendance at regionals (2005)[14], mentoring rookie teams, making sure that FIRST-specific scholarships are applied for (2004)[15], and researching the capabilities of motors and disseminating that information to other teams (2006)[16]. In 2007, Dean’s homework was for each team to contact their government officials (e.g. mayors, legislators, governors, federal officials) and invite them to a FIRST regional or the championship to expose them to the competition and increase the level of political awareness of FIRST. In 2008, it was to inform the media more about FIRST. Any responses (or lack thereof) would be publicly posted on the FIRST Q&A forum.[17]
The efforts to attract political attention to FIRST in 2007 were quite successful, with visits to regional including the US Secretary of Commerce, 4 US Senators, 8 members of Congress, 4 state governors, 7 mayors, and a deputy Prime Minister. Following the FIRST Championship Event in Atlanta in April, the championship winners of the Chairman’s Award in the FRC (#365), FTC (#801), and FLL competitions were invited to the White House to demonstrate their robots to President Bush and members of Congress. Further, FIRST President Paul Gudonis was invited to testify before the Congressional Committee on Education and Labor about FIRST’s achievements and goals.[18]
In 2008, former President of the United States George Herbert Walker Bush spoke at the World Championship in Atlanta.
colbert IS the joke.