From ASEE First Bell April 23, 2009
The Scientific American (4/22, Greenemeier) 60-Second Science Blog reported, “High-schooler’s from California, Illinois and Michigan took the brass ring last weekend in the FIRST (For Inspiration, Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition Championship in Atlanta pitting hundreds of student-made robots against one another in a game fittingly called known as ‘Lunacy’ (a nod to the 40th anniversary of NASA’s moon landing).” The winning alliance of teams “outscored their opponents in a contest requiring their robots to pick up and place as many spongy, nine-inch (23-centimeter) game balls as possible in trailers hitched to their opponents’ robots.” The article describes the competition, as well as the history of FIRST, and provides links to previous coverage of the competition.