FIRST Technology Challenge

Over the past decade, FIRST ® Tech Challenge has continued to grow, serving the FIRST mission of creating excitement and exposing students to the wonderful world of science, technology, engineering and math. With growth, must come change, as most of our community has seen through our evolution of robot technology. We continue to work to make this program more accessible and affordable, while still engaging and challenging students of all skill levels. Since the 2015 season, FIRST Tech Challenge has moved away from a centralized control system to the Android based platform you see today. The increased reliability of the Android based/REV platform, is allowing us to improve the flow of the matches. We are making significant and exciting changes that teams and volunteers need to be aware of for the 2017-2018 season. Autonomous to Driver Controlled Transition Starting in the 2017-2018 season, there will no longer be a hard stop following the autonomous period to transition to the driver c

The company behind why you love your smartphone plans to livestream the FIRST Tech Challenge kickoff on FIRST’s Twitch channel! Happy Kickoff FIRST Tech Challenge teams, Garrett Ponder here from Qualcomm . We are so excited to return as the SeasonPresenting Sponsor of FIRST TechChallenge Relic Recovery , and we think you are going to love this season’s game. As you know, Qualcomm has been supporting FIRST for the past 11 years and we are thrilled to have Qualcomm Snapdragon processors at the heart of the FIRST Tech Challenge control system for the 3rd year in a row. You are all an inspiration to us and we are extremely proud of what you accomplish each season. This year we are going to try something new. We will be hosting the San Diego kickoff event at our headquarters in San Diego, and guess what? It will be livestreamed on the FIRST Twitch channel so you can join us. We’ll have a couple familiar faces sharing their inspiration with our FIRST Tech Challenge community and we’ll be