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Cleveland OH (SPX) Jan 07, 2011 The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, nationwide competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. For many years, the NASA Robotics Alliance Project has been supporting participation in the FIRST Robotics Competition by providing grants to high school teams as well as sponsoring FIRST regional competitions. Providing support to competitions like FIRST Robotics is one way the NASA Robotics Alliance Project strives to create a human, technical and programmatic resource of robotics capabilities to aid future robotic space exploration missions.
Competition Kicks Off Saturday FIRST is a program designed to help students discover how interesting and rewarding a career in engineering and science can be by giving them real world experience working with engineers to build a functioning robot in six weeks. During the live broadcast, which originates from Manchester, N.H., Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway Human Transporter and founder of FIRST, will reveal this year's robotics competition for thousands of high school students across America. More than 100 students are expected to attend this year's event at UTC. The Saturday kickoff marks the beginning of the design and build season. Students will have the opportunity to meet with peers from other schools to compare notes, get ideas, make friends, find mentoring teams, pick up the kits needed to build a functioning robot, and gear up for the Buckeye Regional Robotics Competition, scheduled for April 7-9, 2011. The schools attending the kickoff are: Amherst Steele High School Amherst Austintown Fitch High School Austintown Beachwood High School Beachwood Bedford High School Bedford Berea High School Berea Brush High School Lyndhurst Chaney High School Youngstown Cleveland Metropolitan School District Cleveland East Technical High School Cleveland EHOVE Career Center Milan Erie School District Erie, Pa. Girard High School Girard Hathaway Brown High School Shaker Heights Highland High School Medina Lorain High School Lorain Mc2STEM High School Cleveland Midpark High School Middleburg Heights Orange Schools Pepper Pike St. Edward High School Lakewood St. Ignatius High School Cleveland
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