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FIRST Robotics Team
The FIRST Robotics Competition
is an exciting, multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve
an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. The program is a life-changing, career-molding experience—and
a lot of fun. In 2005 the competition reached close to 25,000 high-school-aged young people on close to 1,000 teams in 30
competitions. Our teams came from Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, Mexico, the U.K., and almost every U.S. state. The
competitions are high-tech spectator sporting events, the result of lots of focused brainstorming, real-world teamwork,
dedicated mentoring, project timelines, and deadlines.
WCC offers high school students and adult mentors the opportunity to work together as members of the WCC FIRST Robotics
Team (part of the Automation Technology Club). Students and mentors spend an intense 6 weeks from January to February
working as a team to produce a winning robot to compete against other schools from around the country in regional
competitions vying for a chance to go to the championship. Students learn teamwork skills, electronics, machining,
mechanics, computer programming, pneumatics, CAD, project finance, 3D animation and fabrication techniques. Team
members can also earn WCC college credit for participating on the FIRST Robotics team by taking the Robotics 170
course offered by WCC.
Contact Gary Shultz () or
Dylan Stoll ()
for more information on joining the team, becoming a volunteer, or
becoming a corporate sponsor for the team.
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