Browse these links to learn more about FIRST and other robotics resources. More resources can be found in our selection of Great FTC Team Websites,too.
Florida FIRST Resources
- Florida FIRST Robotics –info and contacts for FLL,FTC &FRC statewide
- Florida Robotics –Florida FIRST Lego League
- Florida FIRST Tech Challenge
- Florida FIRST Tech Challenge Forum
- FIRST WorldTube - YouTube channel
- Florida FIRST Robotics Regional Competition - FIRST Robotics Challenge
- Florida FIRST at Chief Delphi Forums - unofficial
- Robotics Boosters
- Career Technical Education Foundation
Florida FTC Teams (please send links if you don’t see a team here)
- Brick Buddies,#5018,Land O’Lakes
- Built and Dangerous (B.A.D.) ,#3045,Lyman High School –Longwood
- Exploding Bacon,#1902,4H –Orlando
- Hydra,#2425,Hillsborough High School - Tampa
- Minotaur,#1369,Middleton High School - Tampa
FIRST Robotics Resources
- Carnegie Mellon FTC Robotics Academy
- FIRE –Fostering Innovation Through Robotics Exploration (Carnegie Mellon)
- FIRST –For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
- FIRST Robotics Resource Center
- FIRST Community
- FIRST Tech Challenge Blog
- FIRST Tech Challenge Chief Delphi Forum - unofficial
- FIRST Tech Challenge –high school
- FIRST Robotics Competition –high school
- FIRST LEGO League –elementary and middle school
- FIRST and PTC –ProE,MathCad and more
- FIRST Team Information Management System
- FIRST Volunteer Information and Matching System
- FIRSTwiki –NEW!
- FTC Engineering Notebook Guidelines
- FTC Wiki
- Non-Engineering Mentor Organization (NEMO)
- Official FIRST Tech Challenge Forum
- Resources for the FTC 2008-09 Challenge:Face Off
- The Effect of the FIRST Robotics Competition on High School Students – PDF
- TETRIX Robotics
FIRST approved materials suppliers (selected on basis of quality and affordability)
- Advantage Hobby –Servo gear replacements
- Rplastics –Lexan,ABS sheeting
- Walmart - interlocking foam mats (sometimes online,often in stores,in fitness dept)
General Robotics and Engineering Links of Interest
- All on Robotics
- American Society for Engineering Education
- ASEE Engineering K-12 Resource Center
- Bettscomputers Robotics Course online
- BotJunkie
- Cogito –Connecting Young Thinkers Around the World
- Connect a Million Minds
- Congressional Robotics Caucus
- Education for Innovation
- eGFI –American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) k-12 resources
- Engineer Girl
- Engineering Notebook Guidelines (Professional)
- Everything Robotic
- Go Robotics
- Ideas for Teaching Computer Technology to Kids
- Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS)
- Lab View Wiki Tutorial
- Labview Tutorial from National Instruments
- Let’s Make Robots! –NEW 8/5/11
- Microsoft Robotics
- MindSensors –advanced electronics and accessories for robotics
- Museum of Robots
- NASA’s Robotics Education Project
- National Academy of Engineering “Grand Challenges for Engineering”
- NXT G Tutorial
- NXT STEP Forum
- RoboEducators Robotics Curriculum
- Robot Dreams
- Robot Events
- Robotherapy
- Robot Magazine
- RobotC.net
- RobotC.net Forums
- Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon
- Robotics Online
- Robotic Open Platform -NEW!
- Robotics Resources
- Robotics Resources Using LEGO
- Robotics Trends
- Robots.net –news &robotics competitions information
- Robotics Wikibook
- Society of Robots
- S.P.A.R.K. -Starter Programs for Advanced Robotics Knowledge
- Take Me to Your Robot –A place for roboticists to share,learn,and innovate
- Teaching with Robots
- TechBridge for Girls
- TechCrunch
- The Robot Report –Tracking the Business of Robots
- The Tech Museum –History of Robots
- Try Engineering
- Tutorials for NXT G (and Robolab)
- UrbiForge
- Willow Garage
