First Robotics

First Robotics 2024 Competition Opens At Lawrence Tech

SOUTHFIELD - On Jan. 6, high school students participated in a complicated, musically themed contest in which robots must move plastic rings called “notes” around a basketball-court-sized game field, with bonus points for depositing them in receptacles called “amplifiers” and guiding their robots to star on a central “stage,” is the FIRST Robotics 2024 competition

FIRST Robotics World Championships In Detroit This Week

DETROIT – As more than 35,000 students descend on Detroit this week for what has become known as the Super Bowl for nerds, FIRST Robotics participants and spectators from near and far will get their chance to experience the people and products that move Michigan during the 2018 FIRST Robotics World Championships in Detroit. And while

By |2018-04-23T11:19:14-04:00April 23rd, 2018|Featured, IoT|

State Gives $2.5 Million Grant To FIRST Robotics Michigan Program

LANSING - A $2.5 million grant from the state of Michigan will help even more students benefit from participating in FIRST Robotics. The grants, awarded by the Michigan Department of Education, are part of Gov. Rick Snyder’s continued investment in FIRST Robotics, which has students learning about applications of science, technology, engineering, arts and math

By |2018-01-14T11:25:01-05:00January 14th, 2018|Politics, STEM|

Auto Supplier Denso To Sponsor FIRST Robotics In 2017

SOUTHFIELD - Auto supplier Denso has again announced a 2017 commitment to FIRST Robotics, to which it has donated more than $800,000 since 2002. Detroit will host the FIRST Robotics Championship at Cobo Center and Ford Field in April 2018, 2019 and 2020. Denso is a Silver Level Supplier Sponsor of FIRST, and teamed up

By |2017-01-20T11:29:30-05:00January 20th, 2017|ESD, STEM|

ESD Future Cities Competition, Student Chapters, Plus New Project Called Girls In Engineering

DETROIT - Robert McGee, Engineering Society of Detroit executive director, talks about ESD during an interview at the MAIN event, a Lawrence Technology University student design contest the night before the North American International Auto Show started. McGee talks about how ESD is the Michigan coordinator for the Future Cities program where 39 student teams

By |2017-01-19T16:14:33-05:00January 19th, 2017|ESD, M2 TechCast, Podcasts|

FCA Donates $65,000 To 13 Ontario High Schools To Compete In FIRST Robotics

WINDSOR, Ontario - The FCA Foundation, the charitable arm of North American automaker FCA US LLC, Thursday awarded more than $65,000 in grants to 13 Ontario robotics teams and programs to compete in STEM-building First Robotics Competition programs. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded in 1989 by inventor Dean Kamen

By |2017-01-12T19:16:04-05:00January 12th, 2017|STEM|