FIRST Robotics
Ramen Robotics competes within the organization FIRST.
What is FIRST?
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a global robotics community preparing young people for the future and the world’s leading youth-serving nonprofit advancing STEM education.
Ramen Robotics completes in the FIRST Robotics Competition. The participating teams design, program, and build a robot starting with a standard kit of parts and common set of rules to play in a themed head-to head challenge.
This Year’s Game
In this year’s game, CHARGED UP, presented by Haas, two competing alliances are invited to process game pieces to bring energy to their community. Each alliance brings energy to their community by retrieving their game pieces from substations and scoring it into the grid. Human players provide the game pieces to the robots from the substations. In the final moments of each match, alliance robots race to dock or engage with their charge station!
Each match begins with a 15-second autonomous period, during which time alliance robots operate only on pre-programmed instructions to score points by:
- Leaving their community
- Retrieving and scoring game pieces onto the grid
- Docking on or engaging with their charge station
In the next 2 minutes and 15 seconds of the match, drivers take control of the robots and score points by:
- Continuing to retrieve and score their game pieces onto the grid and
- Docking on or engaging with their charge station
The alliance with the highest score at the end of the match wins!