A program built for
curious minds.
A strong next step for middle and high school students ready for competitive robotics.
Grade range7–12
Age range12–18
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FIRST Tech Challenge
Students and mentors design, build, and program dynamic robots for a new game each season while developing engineering, outreach, and leadership skills.
A program built for
Learn by making.
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Engineer
Design mechanisms and iterate through a complete engineering process.
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Program
Build autonomous and driver-controlled systems for competition.
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Compete
Work with alliance partners in an exciting annual robot game.
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Connect
Practice community outreach, documentation, and team leadership.
Official FIRST resources.
For current registration, season, event, and program requirements, use FIRST’s official resources.
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FIRST For Youth information
What is FIRST® Tech® Challenge (FTC)?
It’s way more than building robots. FIRST Tech Challenge teams (up to 15 team members, grades 7-12) are challenged to design, build, program, and operate robots to compete in a head-to-head challenge in an alliance format.
Guided by adult coaches and mentors, students develop STEM skills and practice engineering principles, while realizing the value of hard work, innovation, and working as a team.
The robot kit is reusable from year to year and can be coded using a variety of levels of Java-based programming. Teams design and build robots, raise funds, design and market their team brand, and do community outreach to earn specific awards. Participants are eligible to apply for $80M+ in college scholarships.
Guided by adult coaches and mentors, students develop STEM skills and practice engineering principles, while realizing the value of hard work, innovation, and working as a team.
The robot kit is reusable from year to year and can be coded using a variety of levels of Java-based programming. Teams design and build robots, raise funds, design and market their team brand, and do community outreach to earn specific awards. Participants are eligible to apply for $80M+ in college scholarships.
Code, Design, and Compete with Robots!FIRST® Tech® Challenge students learn to think like engineers. Teams design, build, and code robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams. Robots are built from a reusable platform, powered by Android technology, and can be coded using a variety of levels of Java-based programming.
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