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• FIRST

  Official FIRST^® Website

  • The official website containing a countless amount of resources to individuals involved in the FIRST.

  FIRST Resource Library

  • Easy to access to info on building, gaming, financing, safety, marketing, team education, and more. Download PDFs, graphics, training materials, and other helpful tools.

  Official FIRST Forum

  • Forum for team participants to ask FIRST staff questions.

  Official FIRST^® YouTube

  • Video from FIRST on a variety of topics and event highlights. Includes channels for each FIRST program.

  FIRST Fundraising Toolkit

  • Team developed fundraising resources compiled by FIRST.

  Payment and Ordering Product – FIRST Team Registration

  • Video for FLL and FRC.

  Unofficial Team Forum (Chief Delphi)

  • Forum for team participants to discuss topics of interest, ask FIRST related questions to peers, and access team developed resources .

• FIRST Robotics Competition

  Official FIRST^® Robotics Competition Website

  • The official website containing a countless amount of resources to individuals involved in the FIRST Robotics Competition.

  FIRST Resource Library

  • Easy to access to info on building, gaming, financing, safety, marketing, team education, and more. Download PDFs, graphics, training materials, and other helpful tools.

  Game Information

  • Learn about the current competition season’s game.

  Official FIRST Robotics Competition Blog

  • Regularly updated posts from FIRST staff.

  Official FIRST Robotics Competition YouTube

  National Instruments Resources and Support

• FIRST Tech Challenge

  Official FIRST^® Tech Challenge Website

  • The official website containing a countless amount of resources to individuals involved in the FIRST Tech Challenge.

  FIRST Resource Library

  • Easy to access to info on building, gaming, financing, safety, marketing, team education, and more. Download PDFs, graphics, training materials, and other helpful tools.

  Game Information

  • Learn about the current competition season’s game.

  Official FIRST Tech Challenge Blog

  • Regularly updated posts from FIRST staff.

• FIRST LEGO League

  Official FIRST^® LEGO League Website

  • The official website containing a countless amount of resources to individuals involved in the FIRST LEGO League.

  FIRST Steps: FIRST LEGO League Coaches Guide

  • FIRST Steps is a series of resources that guide new coaches through their initial season with FIRST® LEGO League. It is a step by step, meeting by meeting framework that allows coaches with no previous experience to lead a robotics team through a successful first season. The course also includes hints throughout the content with tips on anything from how to help kids make collective decisions to how to debug faulty robot programming.

  Coaches’ Handbook

  • Guide to getting started, building your team, starting your season, core values, working through the robot game and the project, tournaments, judging, budgeting, and more.

  FIRST Resource Library

  • Easy to access to info on building, gaming, financing, safety, marketing, team education, and more. Download PDFs, graphics, training materials, and other helpful tools.

  CORE VALUES

  Challenge Information

  • Learn about the current competition season’s challenge.

  Table Build Guides

  • Official Table Building Instructions

  Programming/Mindstorms Training

  • EV3Lessons.com 
  • NXTprograms.com
  • Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy
  • Texas Tech LEGO Mindstorms Education
  • Mindstorms

  Building Your Robot

  (also see “FLL Resources Websites from Other Regions” below)

  • LEGO Digital Designer – Allows for virtual building of LEGO models, including FLL Robots.
  • NXTprograms.comDesigns that make strong base robots include the 3-motor chassis, the multi-bot, and the forklift.
  • BUILDING ROBOTS FOR FLL: Books
  • Rebrickable – Does your team need to order more of a certain Technic LEGO part, but you can’t figure out what it’s called? Enter the number of the set you are using in this website’s search, and it will show you all the pieces that are included in the set. Click on the one you are looking for and it will give you a part number/code, which you can use to order from LEGO itself or a site like bricklink.com.
  • bricklink – “The Unofficial LEGO Marketplace” lets you search by set, style, or part ID number. Parts are provided by a variety of independent sellers around the world. Handy if you’re looking for some of the more uncommon pieces to use on your robot (pneumatics, etc.).

  Ask an Expert Webinar Series

  • Ongoing webinars throughout the fall on a variety of topics, including the team management, judging, the project, programming, and more.

  What to Bring to an Event

  Judging

  • Project How to Videos – Videos from FIRST on “What is the Project?”, “How to Have a Successful Project Experience”, and “Presenting Your Project”, in addition to a short documentary on team project journeys.
  • Judging Rubrics – Core Values, Project, and Robot Design rubrics used by Judges.

  FLL Resources Websites from Other Regions

  • Starting Points – Helpful materials from VA-DC FIRST.
  • TechBrick – Resources on many aspects of FLL; includes the TechBrick ruler to measure axles and beams, and a guide to uncommon LEGO parts that are very useful on robots.
  • Oregon Robotics Tournament and Outreach Program