[STEM-Announce] Updated Invitation: First FRC Robotics Competition @ Sat Mar 4, 2017 8:30am - 8pm (EST) (RBTC STEM Event Announcer)

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This event has been changed.

Title: First FRC Robotics Competition
Blacksburg High School hosts the FIRST FRC Robotics Competition on  
Saturday, March 4, 2017 and Sunday, March 5, 2017.

Saturday Schedule:
• 8:00 am - 5:00 pm - Technology and Scholarship Row Open
• 10:00 am - 1:00 pm - FLL Jr. Expo
• 10:30-11:00 am - Opening Ceremonies
• 11:00 am - 1:00 pm - Qualification Matches
• 11:00 am - 3:00 pm - Guided Public Tours
• 1:00-2:00 pm - Lunch
• 2:00-7:00 pm - Qualification Matches

Thirty-eight teams from six states will be in Blacksburg High School  
competing in a First FRC Robotics tournament qualifier. These students will  
build 120 pound robots in six weeks to meet the First Steamworks Challenge.  
Teams must cooperate with their alliance partners to prepare their airships  
for the ultimate long distance race.

To see a video of how the competition works, visit:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMiNmJW7enI

Admission is free and open to the public.

FIRST Robotics Competition is recognized as the premier high school  
engineering challenge. Teams of students, working closely with teachers and  
volunteer mentors, have six weeks to conceptualize, design, build, program,  
modify and test a robot to participate in a competition that changes each  
year. Every January, FIRST unveils the challenge or “game” at an annual  
kick-off event that is simulcast to locations around the world.

Teams receive a kit of common parts that are used to build the core systems  
of their robots, but they won’t find an instruction manual. No two robots  
will be built or operated in exactly the same way. Students work with  
hundreds of components, including engineering mainstays such as  
programmable radio controllers, motors, electrical circuitry, pneumatic  
components and mechanical parts. Each team has to decide its own game  
strategy, and has to design and fabricate a machine within tight  
specifications on size, weight and materials.

To view Saturday's event, visit:  
http://www.NextThreeDays.com/FeaturedEventDetails.cfm?E=419921.

For more information, visit:  
https://www.firstchesapeake.org/first-programs/frc/first-chesapeake-district-events/southwest-va  
or http://www.firstinspires.org/team-event-search/event?id=22469.

Cost: See Description
When: Sat Mar 4, 2017 8:30am – 8pm Eastern Time (changed)
Where: Blacksburg High School
3401 Bruin Lane
Blacksburg, VA 24060 (changed)
Calendar: RBTC STEM Event Announcer
Who:
     * RBTC STEM Event Announcer

Event details:  
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