Toga Party Developing A Tradition

FIRST is a national competition intended to stimulate high school students to become interested and involved with science and technology. Each year the process begins when teams obtain boxes of components, and a description of the objectives for the competition. Once the materials are received, each team has six weeks to construct a robot which is capable of playing a sport. The components which can be used and the sport which to be played by the robot changes from year to year. In addition to building a robot, teams also compete for the Chairman's award (presented to the team judged to have best exemplified the spirit of FIRST) and an animation award.