[Music]
First isn't only about engineering.
It's not just about robots. There's so many different things that our involved with being in a robotics team.
You can learn programming and you could be designing things.
You're collaborating is constantly with all your team members. You're building things for that hands-on experience.
And you're working with industry partners, with industry mentors. They're, giving you skills that they learned at their workplace and that they learned in college.
It's a theme of national worldwide collaboration
and we're trying to teach the students leadership,
how to solve problems and that's what it's all about. That's our objective.
The theme of this year's game is Power Up. It's an arcade game where teams are trying to escape from the field
by getting the balancing of the scales and the switches to their team, score points, and beat the boss.
[cheers]
[Robot!]
And the Aerospace Valley Regional is underway. The name of the game is FIRST Power Up
1-2-3 Team 2658.
3-2-1 Power Up
Outake
60 seconds to go...points for Red.
The motto FIRST is coopertition. It's a competition as a group. In an alliance
we have three robots that compete together for the title of champion.
These robots work together against the other three teams and then they
each our respective jobs, either doing switch, scale, or exchange. Or even going to the opponent's side and messing with their robots.
It's a fun challenge being able to communicate with other teams and see
what their robot can do to come up with the best game strategy possible.
YEAH
Red Alliance
Red alliance
Down, Ricky, down
okay, good
And I got to tell you, I'm really impressed with the leadership
capabilities I'm seeing in today's high school students.
So I am very confident in the future and just want to congratulate you on being here.
Keep going. Keep focused on STEM and keep supporting each other.
