3,225 different solutions to the same problem

This past spring I attended the FRC North Carolina State Championships and got to talk to a bunch of the teams. If you've never heard of FIRST Robotics, you're in for a real treat, because this competition is AWESOME.

These teams, thousands of them, have only about 2 months to design, build, and test robots to play a brand new game before the competitions begin, and then their work is put to the test! It would be a lot for any professional engineer, but these kids are still in high school! It's pretty incredible.

Stay tuned for all of the individual pit interviews!

If you're interested in finding a team or attending an event, here's the official team search from FIRST: https://www.firstinspires.org/team-event-search And if you want to know more about any specific team (like a link to their website) you can probably find it on Blue Alliance: https://www.thebluealliance.com/

If you're looking to help a team as a mentor, volunteer, or sponsor: https://www.firstinspires.org/support

If you're specifically interested in one of the teams I mentioned or featured, here are links to them all!

435, Robodogs https://www.robodogs.org/

451, The Cat Attack http://thecatattack.org/

587, The Hedgehogs https://www.team587.org/

2059, The Hitchikers https://team2059.org/blog/

2642, Pitt Pirates http://www.pittpiratesrobotics.com/

3737, Roto Raptors https://rotoraptors.wixsite.com/team3737

5727, OmegaBytes http://omegabytes.org/ https://www.facebook.com/omegabytes5727/

6502, Darc Side https://6502.team/ https://www.da.org/thedaexperience/upper-school/competitive-academic-teams/robotics

7443, Overhills Jag-Wires https://www.facebook.com/jagwires7443/

8634, Bootstraps! https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/8634

8727, Glitch 2.0 https://glitchtwopoint0.wixsite.com/glitch2

(if anybody watching this is FROM one of these teams and wants me to change/update/add a link, let me know!)

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