What is FIRST Tech Challenge?
​FIRST Tech Challenge teams (up to 15 team members, grades 7-12) are challenged to design, build, program, and operate robots to compete in a head to head challenge in an alliance format. The FIRST Tech Challenge program rewards teamwork, Gracious Professionalism, and intelligent design with a cost-effective robotics platform. FIRST Tech Challenge is scalable and volunteer driven.
"Competition for the sake not of destroying one another, but for the sake of bettering and improving both competitors as a result of the competition."
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- Woodie Flowers
Want to get involved? Ready to join a KY team? Want to start a team in KY?
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Our programming can be implemented as a class or as an extracurricular activity! Teams can be at a public, school, private school, homeschool group or any community group!
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E-mail us at info@kyfirstrobotics.org and we will help you get started
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New & Veteran teams
Registration for league meets will open at 9am ET on Monday, September 9, 2024, via the link below.
League meet events will possibly be open to out-of-state teams as space allows. Our state championship event will not be open to out-of-state teams this year.
Teams will be required to compete in at least 1 league meet in order to compete at the state championship, unless other arrangements have been made in advance due to extenuating circumstances.
League meets:
Friday, October 25, 2024 Morehead State University Morehead, KY
Friday, November 8, 2024 Hazard Community College Hazard, KY
Saturday, November 16, 2024 Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY
Saturday, December 7, 2024 Lexmark Lexington, KY
Saturday, January 18, 2025 Louisville Collegiate School Louisville, KY
State Championship:
Saturday, February 1,2025 University of Kentucky Lexington, KY
Optional setup Friday evening
As we continue to grow across the state, the process of scheduling and assigning events becomes a little more complex. We will do our best to allow teams to have their first preference choice assigned to them.
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Did You Know?
That FIRST Tech Challenge teams aren't limited to a kit of parts? That's right! They can use anything from custom-designed 3D printed parts to a measuring tape and even things from the recycling bin! You can even use every engineer's favorite tools - duct tape & zip ties - to fix anything that breaks! And some teams find that their prototype with these materials works just fine. The possibilities are (almost) endless!
Informational Videos
These videos have been produced as additional support for KY FTC teams, all produced by your KY leadership team! This is a great place to start when you have a question about anything related to FTC.
Resources
Here are some resources used by the FTC community.