Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of the busiest shopping days of the year. This is a great opportunity
to help support First State Robotics Incorporated by signing up for (and shopping with) the Amazon Smile Program. A portion of each purchase goes to FSR. You shop, we benefit….Smiles for everybody!
Go to smile.amazon.com.
(Image from a book you can get from Amazon- 101 Things You Can do on the Internet.)
Axalta Coating Systems has offered $2500 college scholarship to seniors in Delaware’s FIRST Tech Competion teams. The scholarship committee has announced an extension to application time frame– until November 9, 2015.
Information about the sponsor, Axalta, as well as the scholarship application and process can be found here.
In two action-packed robotic events this October 17, robots are coming to the Davidow Fieldhouse at Salem Community College in Carneys Point Township, New Jersey.
At the Duel on the Delaware, an off-season FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC) competition, over 30 teams of high school students from the mid-Atlantic area go head to head in one more opportunity to play last season’s game. The annual event, co-hosted by FSR team, MOE 365 and FRC 316, the Lunatecs kicks off at 8:45 am and goes till 5 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
At the Duel on the Delaware FTC Scrimmage, more than 20 FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) teams from around the region will mark the opening of 2015-16 season and participate in robotics workshops and an informal scrimmage jointly sponsored by Diamond State FTC, New Jersey FTC and Pennsylvania FTC. The middle school and high school- aged students are challenged each September to design and build robots for a brand new game. (New game release date September 12- info here.)
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