Robolions 1261

Welcome,
We are FIRST Robotics Team 1261 from Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwanee, GA.

What is FIRST?
“For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology,” FIRST was founded by Inventor Dean Kamen in 1989. FIRST designs accessible, innovative programs that inspire students of all ages, from elementary to high school, to become engineers by giving them real world experience working with professional engineers to develop a robot. These programs build not only science and technology skills and interests, but also self-confidence, leadership, communication, and life skills.

FIRST has founded three major competitions:

1. FRC, FIRST Robotics Competition
2. FTC, FIRST Tech Challenge
3. FLL, FIRST Lego League.

FRC Lunacy Game Description

Lunacy is played on a 54’x27’ low friction field. Robots are equipped with slippery wheels and payload trailers. Lunacy game pieces are “Orbit Balls” designated as Moon Rocks, Empty Cells, or Super Cells. Two three-team robot alliances collect and score Orbit Balls in trailers attached to the opposing teams’ robots. Human players are positioned around the perimeter of the arena and can score from their stations.

Robots are autonomous during the first 15 seconds of play, and teleoperated for the remaining 2
minutes. Trailers begin each match empty, but robots may be loaded with up to 7 Moon Rocks by their team prior to the start of the match. Human players are equipped with 20 Moon Rocks, less the number they load into their robot, and a quantity of empty cells and Super cells determined by the outcome of their previous match. If a team has not yet played a match, the human player receives 4 Empty Cells and 2 Super Cells.

Moon Rocks and Empty Cells scored in an opponent’s trailer, at any time and by any player, are worth 2 points. Super Cells scored in an opponent’s trailer are worth 15 points. Super Cells must be “activated” before they can be played. Activation occurs when a robot delivers an Empty Cell from their Outpost to their Fueling Station. Empty cells can be delivered throughout the match. Super Cells may only be played during the last 20 seconds of a match.

Official game animation

Competition Manual

Robot videos from THIS year

Robot Videos from past years

Lots of info about everything (national forums)

FTC

The FIRST Tech Challenge, FTC, is a lower level of robotics for high school to participate in with lower cost. FTC provides the amount of challenge that FRC does but at a smaller size with more portability and affordability. The ultimate goal of FTC is the opportunity to discover the excitement and science rewards, technology, and engineering.

This year’s program is using the new FTC Competition Kit, comprised of parts from Tetrix, HiTechnic, Carnegie-Melon, National Instruments, and Pitsco

http://firstlegoleague.org/community/fll/game.aspx, under the RULES. Please read all the rules and updates. You will have to set-up the field.
The First Lego League is about getting youngsters to get involved into technology. The challenges will be given which focus on Core Values like sportsmanship and learning. The youngsters will have to analyze, research, and solve for the problem. Then they will have to present the solution. They will have to build an automonous robot and after that in 2 mintues 30 seconds they will have to run pre-designed programs in the robot.  In the Project there are three main things you have to do: research, create, and share. Many times, they will have to face the same problems that a engineer or a scientist would face.

FLL
The rules are very important, and you can find them at:

You can check out the guide at :

http://firstlegoleague.org/community/fll/game.aspx, under the FIELD SETUP Tab.

Finally, the resources that are needed are on:

http://firstlegoleague.org/community/fll/game.aspx, under the RESOURCES Tab.