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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.
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.
FIRST 2010 Regional Information
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The 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition Hawai'i Regional will be held on March 25-27, 2010 at the Stan Sheriff Center on the University of Hawai'i at Manoa campus.
For more information, please contact:
Brigadier General Gary Ishikawa
FIRST in Hawai‘i Regional Director
Hawai‘i National Guard
Phone: (808) 733-4244
Fax: (808) 733-4238
E-mail: Gary.Ishikawa@hawaii.gov
or
Ms. Corrie Heck
Executive Director
Robotics Organizing Committee (ROC)
Phone: 351-3865
E-mail: corrie.heck@gmail.com
