What is FIRST?
This year’s game, Center Stage is themed around the way the arts plays into robotics. The challenges of this game include collecting hexagonal pixels, and placing them on a 45° angled scoreboard. One practical way art is incorporated in to game play is by awarding extra points to teams who create specific patterns with the pixels. Each game is played by two Alliances of two robots each and each game has 3 periods adding up to under two minutes of gameplay! The sections are as follow:
Autonomous- our robot driving only on precoded directions
Tele-op- drivers controlling the robot
Endgame- thirty seconds set aside for special tasks in order to gain more points.
More information is available on FIRST's website!