We call FIRST Robotics Competition the ultimate sport for the mind. High-school student participants call it “the hardest fun you’ll ever have.” The RSR FRC team meets five days a week and spends over a hundred hours working together to build a robot. 

Under strict rules, limited time and resources, teams of students are challenged to raise funds, design a team "brand," hone teamwork skills, and build and program industrial-size robots to play a difficult field game against others. It’s as close to real-world engineering as a student can get. [ ...more ]