The FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC®)
- Provides affordable, accessible opportunities to compete head to head using an exciting sports model
- Offers students a chance to develop strategy and build robots based on sound engineering principles
How FTC Works
- Grades 7-12
- About 10 students per team
- 2 to 3 Mentors per team
- Teams use a modular robotics platform to design, build, and compete in a FIRST-designed game
- Includes schools, home schools, after-school groups, churches, civic organizations, neighborhood groups
- Corporate Sponsors
- Sports-like events with judges and awards
- Up to 48 teams per event
What FTC Offers
- Design, build, and program robots
- Gain hands-on programming and rapid-prototyping experience
- Apply real-world math and science concepts
- Document the engineering process
- Develop problem-solving, organizational, and team-building skills
- Learn about Gracious Professionalism®
- Compete and cooperate in Alliances at tournaments
- Build life skills while building robots and work towards participating in tournaments and World Championship
- Qualify for more than $10 million in college scholarships