FIRST® ULTIMATE ASCENTSM 2013 Robotics Game Revealed
MANCHESTER, N.H.–()–Inventor Dean
Kamen launched the FIRST®
Robotics Competition (FRC®) season today with the
Kickoff of a new robotics game called ULTIMATE
ASCENTSM before a crowd of 600 people at Southern
New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H., hometown of FIRST
Headquarters. Nearly 51,000 high-school students in 81 cities around the
world joined the 2013
Kickoff via live NASA-TV broadcast and webcast.
“For our country to succeed, we must prepare our young people and our
workforce for the jobs of the 21st century, and events like
this competition are crucial for those efforts”
“FIRST isn’t about competing, it’s about cooperating, and
recognizing that if you have the right tools, you’ll be able to make
this world a better place for yourself and for the country,” said Dean
Kamen, president of DEKA Research and Development and FIRST
Founder, adding, “There is no stimulus package that will have as much
return as stimulating a bunch of kids to become the workforce of the
future, the problem solvers, the creators of the future.”
The
2013 game, ULTIMATE ASCENT, is played between two Alliances of three
teams each. Each Alliance competes by trying to score as many flying
discs into their goals as possible during the two-minute and 15-second
match. Discs scored in higher goals score Alliances more points. Matches
end with robots attempting to climb up pyramids located near the middle
of the field.
“For our country to succeed, we must prepare our young people and our
workforce for the jobs of the 21st century, and events like
this competition are crucial for those efforts,” noted the
Article source: PRNewswire
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