This past spring I attended the FRC North Carolina State Championships and got to talk to a bunch of the teams. If you've never heard of FIRST Robotics, you're in for a real treat, because this competition is AWESOME. (If you haven't seen the hub video for all these interviews, check it out first! <a href="https://youtu.be/BycqWYE3Ais" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/BycqWYE3Ais</a>)<br /><br />These teams, thousands of them, have only about 2 months to design, build, and test robots to play a brand new game before the competitions begin, and then their work is put to the test! It would be a lot for any professional engineer, but these kids are still in high school! It's pretty incredible.<br /><br />This video is the complete pit interview with FIRST Team 8727. Enjoy!<br />------------------------------------------------------<br />To join or support team 8727:<br /><a href="https://glitchtwopoint0.wixsite.com/glitch2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://glitchtwopoint0.wixsite.com/glitch2</a><br />------------------------------------------------------<br />If you're interested in finding a team or attending an event, here's the official team search from FIRST:<br /><a href="https://www.firstinspires.org/team-event-search" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.firstinspires.org/team-event-search</a><br />And if you want to know more about any specific team (like a link to their website) you can probably find it on Blue Alliance:<br /><a href="https://www.thebluealliance.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.thebluealliance.com/</a><br />------------------------------------------------------<br />This is a world map that shows events and teams. I'm not sure how accurate it is because it doesn't look official, but it's a lot easier to search by eye! (and it also doesn't include the other FIRST programs like FLL and FTC (FRC was featured in the video))<br /><a href="https://frcmap.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://frcmap.com/</a><br />------------------------------------------------------<br />If you're looking to help a team as a mentor, volunteer, or sponsor:<br /><a href="https://www.firstinspires.org/support" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.firstinspires.org/support</a><br />------------------------------------------------------<br />Music in this video:<br />I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</a>)<br /><a href="http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626</a><br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swcsh8gyyIQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swcsh8gyyIQ</a>