FIRST…
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I love this organization. FIRST is everything I was looking for in an extracuricular activity when I was in highschool… but never really found it. The good news is that I can be involved now.
Here’s how it works… teams (usually by highschool) sign up for the yearly competition. The goal is to create a robot that will compete in the annual competitions in a variety of challenges. Its kind of like battle bots, but all nice and focusing on team work instead of destruction.
Anyone can join because there is room for just about every area of interest and talent on a team. For example, I am a mentor of the animation team… thats right… every team gets to create an animation along with their robot… and it is its own competition right along side the yearly robot challenges. Autodesk donates the software… and all the teams need are a few computers, some willing students, a little bit of direction, and a lot of rendering hours to churn out a fresh animation. I have been involved for the past 4 years…
Every team needs a bunch of mentors, if you think you would like to mentor an animation team… I started this website to try to organize our efforts in the Detroit area…
Here’s an original animation from my team, TNT280
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