It's here: the FIRST Robotics World Championships!

Day 3 Our three teams take on the elimination rounds of the St. Louis Regional Competition

Showdown in St. Louis: Day 2 the competition begins.

Showdown in St. Louis

With regional competition just days away, teams tweak small parts of their robot's reserved elements and finalize their team spirit schwag.

Bag and tag time has arrived.

With chassis built and robots driving, it's time for our local teams to add the shooting mechanism to their robot structure and test, test, test their ability to target, shoot, and swish.

Driving and Balancing.

As our FIRST Robotics Competition teams continue to finalize their shooting mechanisms this week we ask the question: what good is a shooting mechanism if there's no robot chassis to mount it on?

This year's Rebound Rumble challenge pushes our FIRST Robotics teams to think in a wide variety of ways as they design and build a robot to meet a wide variety of tasks. First up, how to shoot those little basketballs into those three-tiered hoops.

Teams develop strategy for Rebound Rumble.

Teams develop strategy for Rebound Rumble.

A new challenge!

A new challenge!

The results are in!

The results are in!

Let the games begin!

Let the games begin!

For our First Tech Challenge Teams, all the innovation comes down to this--The 11th Hour--one final day before competition. Are they ready?

For our First Tech Challenge Teams, all the innovation comes down to this--The 11th Hour--one final day before competition. Are they ready?

For all innovators patience and perseverance aren't just buzz words they are every day realities, and that's certainly true of our FIRST Tech Challenge teams as the clock ticks toward the competition.

For all innovators patience and perseverance aren't just buzz words they are every day realities, and that's certainly true of our FIRST Tech Challenge teams as the clock ticks toward the competition.

The pace is really picking up for our First Tech Challenge Teams now. With the competition just a few weeks away, student minds are reeling with ways to re-design, re-build, and re-create as they get their robots ready.

The seven teams are deeply involved now, aiming to meet multiple challenges of design and implementation, persevering and innovating every step of the way.