Mar 21, 2020
We’ve added another community storytelling opportunity for teams: the ROBOTICON Robot Tricks Challenge! There are several categories to enter: Technical, Autonomous, Top Scoring, Unexpected/Accidental , Funny, and for those absolutely uncategorical tricks, the...
Mar 20, 2020
With our FIRST season cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, we thought we’d put our shared downtime to good use by inviting teams to gather round a virtual campfire and tell us and our virtual social distancing campers their stories. We’re inviting teams...
Nov 12, 2019
Some of our program support occurs after ROBOTICON. This year one of those great organizations is the Florida Blue Foundation. Florida Blue Foundation is a trade name of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Foundation, Inc., and is a separate philanthropic...
Oct 22, 2019
Another ROBOTICON off-season and FIRST Showcase is in the bag! Our 2019 event brought together 4000 participants and guests, nearly 80 volunteers and 50 teams across all four FIRST programs to play and learn together. It was a bittersweet weekend, with news of the...
Oct 21, 2019
On Friday, October 11, Dr. Woodie Flowers passed away unexpectedly. News made it to the FIRST community late Saturday, as the first day of ROBOTICON wrapped up. Ken Johnson, Director of FIRST Tech Challenge, was attending ROBOTICON, which, as a University of South...
Oct 20, 2019
Most of our event partners and sponsors we highlight in advance of ROBOTICON. A special few get a shout out post-event, so you can better see what makes them so special. One of these great post-event highlights belongs to Matthew Yoder, of Myiconography . We made...
