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Team #2843 Under the Son A year ago FIRST Tech Challenge announced the release of a step-by-step guide to building a competition-ready robot, a project we called the PushBot. The robot was designed, built, and programmed by FTC teams (MATRIX by Team #003 from Australia and TETRIX by Team #2843 in Maryland, USA) to provide rookie FTC teams with easy instructions to build a basic competition-ready robot. The guide was clear, easy to follow, and included lots of pictures. Last year we saw many modified PushBot robots competing at FTC events all over the country. The move to the new Android-Based Technology made the old PushBot Guide obsolete, but Team #2843 Under the Son came to the rescue, willingly taking on the challenge of modifying the robot to include the new technology as well as re-writing the guide from top to bottom. Like every FTC team this season, they had to learn how to use Android Studio, App Inventor, and program with Java, and since they were one of the first teams to...

The FIRST Tech Challenge annual Game Kickoff is Saturday, September 12th at 12 noon ET this year and we hope that you will be celebrating at a Kickoff event or party in your area (and if not, join one online - more info as we get closer to the date). In case you are a newcomer to FTC, welcome! Here's a little background information. Each year,  FIRST  Tech Challenge releases a new game that presents teams with fresh engineering and design challenges.  We keep the game secret until our Kickoff in September.  The Kickoff happens online, with the release of the game animation and season materials, and also at a growing number of live  Kickoff events in your regions . We are really excited to reveal this year's game at Kickoff, which is three months away still, but a lot of other exciting stuff is happening between now and then: Intelitek has released the first New Technology Training Resource , with Part II coming out later this summer, and Part III coming out e...