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Click here for results from the World Championships in Atlanta, featuring Maui, McKinley, Moanalua and Waialua High Schools!

FIRST Robotics

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. Over 42,000 high-school-aged young people on over 1,686 teams participate in 41 regional events. Teams come from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Germany, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Turkey, the U.K. and 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.

Click here to read how FIRST is advancing science and technology in the Philippines.
 
Colleges, universities, corporations, businesses, and individuals provide scholarships to FIRST participants. Involved engineers experience again many of the reasons they chose engineering as a profession, and the companies they work for contribute to the community while they prepare and create their future workforce. The competition shows students that the technological fields hold many opportunities and that the basic concepts of science, math, engineering, and invention are exciting and interesting.

2009 World Championship in Atlanta

Local, mainland, and international teams went head to head at the FIRST in Hawai‘i Regional, which came to an exciting conclusion on March 28, at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Stan Sheriff Center.

 

After 61 rounds of competition, the Blue Alliance emerged the winner, qualifying for the World Championship in Atlanta. Blue Alliance teams included: Maui High School, McKinley High School and Moanalua High School. Waialua High School also earned a place in the Championship by winning the prestigious Chairman's Award.

These four teams competed at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, April 16-18, 2009.

Waialua High School (Hawaiian Kids) earned special recognition and is bringing home a Judge’s Award. The team finished 41^st out of 86 teams in its division. This was and the sixth championship appearance for Waialua High and Intermediate School.

McKinley High School (Team Kika Mana) advanced to the semifinals in its division, and finished 23^rd out of 88 teams.  It was McKinley’s fourth appearance at the World Championship.

Maui High School (Maui High FIRST Team) finished 18^th out of 87 teams in its division.  This was the first appearance for the team and the first team from Maui to qualify for the championship.

Moanalua High School (Cool Geeks), which also made its debut in the World Championship, finished 72^nd out of 86 teams in its division.  

Click here to read a news release from Governor Linda Lingle. 

For more information, please visit the official championship website.