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| champion = Chairman's Award Winner: 597: "Wolverines' Champion Teams: 118: "Robonauts" 1678: "Citrus Circuits" 1671: "Buchanan Bird Brains" 5012: "Gryffingear" | most_champs = World Champions: 71: Team Hammond (4 titles) Blue Banners: 254: The Cheesy Poofs (39 Banners) 1114: Simbotics (39 Banners) Regional & District Wins: 254: The Cheesy Poofs (29 titles) Longest Win Streak : 2056: OP Robotics (22 titles) Greatest Combination in History : 2056: OP Robotics and 1114: Simbotics (17 Regional wins together) Regional & District Chairman's Award: 503: Frog Force (9 awards) | website = | related_comps = FIRST Tech Challenge FIRST Lego League FIRST Lego League Jr. | TV = NBCUniversal NASA TV | footnotes= }} FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students and mentors work during a six-week period to build game-playing robots that weigh up to .〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=1 March 2015 )〕 Robots complete tasks such as scoring balls into goals, frisbees into goals, inner tubes onto racks, hanging on bars, and balancing robots on balance beams. The game changes yearly, keeping the excitement fresh and giving each team a more level playing field. While teams are given a standard set of parts, they are also allowed a budget and encouraged to buy or make specialized parts. FRC is one of four robotics competition programs organized by FIRST. FRC has a unique culture, built around two values. Gracious Professionalism embraces the competition inherent in the program, but rejects trash talk and chest-thumping, instead embracing empathy and respect for other teams. Coopertition emphasizes that teams can cooperate and compete at the same time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/gracious-professionalism )〕 The goal of the program is to inspire students to be science and technology leaders. In 2015, the 24th year of competition, 2904 teams with roughly 73,000 students and 17,500 mentors from 19 countries built robots. They competed in 56 Regional Competitions, 48 District Qualifying Competitions, and 5 District Championships. 600 teams won slots to attend the FIRST Championship, where they competed in a tournament. In addition to on-field competition, teams and team members compete for awards recognizing entrepreneurship, creativity, engineering, industrial design, safety, controls, media, quality, and exemplifying the core values of the program. Most teams reside in the United States, with Canada, Israel, and Mexico contributing significant numbers of teams.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default/files/uploadedFiles/Robotics_Programs/FRC/FRC_Communications_Resource_Center/Flyers/FRC_2015-SeasonFacts.pdf )〕 ==History== FIRST was founded in 1989 by inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen, with inspiration and assistance from physicist and MIT professor emeritus Woodie Flowers. Kamen was disappointed with the number of kids—particularly women and minorities—who considered science and technology careers, and decided to do something about it. As an inventor, he looked for activities that captured the enthusiasm of students, and decided that combining the excitement of sports competition with science and technology had potential. Distilling what sports had done right into a recipe for engaging young people, Kamen says, turned out to be relatively straightforward. "It's after school, not in school. It's aspirational, not required," he explained to me. Kamen has stated that FIRST is the invention he feels most proud of, and predicts that participants will be responsible for significant technological advances in years to come. The first FRC season was in 1992 and had one event at a high school gymnasium in New Hampshire.〔(FIRST History | USFIRST.org )〕 That first competition was relatively small-scale, similar in size to today's FIRST Tech Challenge and Vex Robotics Competition games. Robots relied on a wired connection to receive data from drivers; in the following year, it quickly transitioned to a wireless system.〔(1992 FIRST Robotics final match - YouTube )〕〔(1993 US FIRST Robotics "Rug Rage" match - YouTube )〕 Since 2005, the games have been played with two opposing "alliances" each composed of three teams. Prior to that, a variety of other formats were used, including 2-team alliances, 4-team alliances and 3 teams competing independently. Starting in 1995, the FIRST Championship (and by extension, the FRC championships) has been held at a large venue, such as Epcot in Orlando, Reliant Park in Houston, the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, and the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. FIRST sponsors have included major companies such as Boeing, Microsoft, National Instruments, Google, Texas Instruments, and United Technologies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「FIRST Robotics Competition」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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