Richard Sisk and RoboKong at the Riverside Robotics Society Part 2

31 May 2015 · 1 min

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FIRST Robotics competitions run three days: one practice day, two competition days. Teams present their robots to judges in five minutes to win one of 14 awards, learning to pitch a year's work in a tight window.

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So it's really, it's a 3-day event for our competitions. We have a practice day and then 2 full days of competition. They also have 14 awards that the kids can earn. They're judged awards, so the kids learn how to talk to judges and adults efficiently. And everything has this kind of underlying reason why it's there. Mm-hmm. Every bit of the design of a FIRST Robotics Competition is for a reason. And so they get about 5 minutes with a judge to describe everything about their team or everything about their robot. So if you can think of, you know, you have to explain a whole year's worth of teamwork or, you know, a whole 6 weeks worth of build in 5 minutes to a judge, the kids learn how to speak effectively and convey information very quickly. They also— yeah. So before the