Kettering FIRST Competition Part Two: The People

September 22nd, 2009 by Matthew Bleicher

As I wrote about yesterday, we went to the Kettering FIRST competition this past Saturday. It was incredible fun. However, as much fun as the game was and as fascinating as the robots were, even more fun and interesting were the students behind the robots.
We had a chance to walk around the “pit” area, where [...]

Kettering FIRST Competition Part One: Lunacy

September 21st, 2009 by Matthew Bleicher

When fellow Robots – For The Win! writer Bryan English and I decided to attend and cover the robotics competition at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan we had no idea what we were in for. Oh sure, we knew there would be high school students that built robots for some specific task, but to summarize [...]