Team 1726, the Nifty Engineering Robotics Design Squad (NERDS)hasbeen spreading technology and engineering to the youth of today through robotics-oriented activities. By hosting robotics camps for middle-school students, teaching our ideals to the general public, and showing off our work at regional, national, and international level competitions, we have begun the hard work of capturing the public's eye and steering its motive toward working for a better future.
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a unique varsity sport of the mind designed to help high-school-aged young people discover how interesting and rewarding the life of engineers and researchers can be. The FIRST Robotics Competition challenges teams of young people and their mentors to solve a common problem in a six-week timeframe using a standard "kit of parts" and a common set of rules. Teams build robots from the parts and enter them in competitions designed by Dean Kamen, Dr. Woodie Flowers, and a committee of engineers and other professionals.
FIRST is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting science, technology, and engineering to the youth of today through annual robotics competitions. Founded by inventor Dean Kamen, FIRST takes the future into perspective by targeting the present:
A robot called Capuchin scales vertical walls using four limbs that can shift its weight to stay balanced, it and other climbing robots could be key to uncovering the geology of Mars.
