This season, all GeorgiaFIRST FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) and FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) teams are being invited to join Recycle for Good, with the goal of collecting 3 million aluminum beverage cans for recycling, which will in turn completely fund a Habitat for Humanity home for a family in Atlanta’s […]
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Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program June 4th – July 20th Turner’s Techwood Campus will be one of 7 Atlanta host sites for the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program. The Summer Immersion Program is a FREE 7-week summer program for 10th–11th grade girls (rising juniors and seniors) to […]
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The 2018 Summer Turner Voices Internship application is now open! About the Program Turner Voices, our signature philanthropic program, aims to build the pipeline for the next generation of voices in the media industry. The Turner Voices Summer Internship Program will run Mondays through Fridays from June 1 – July 27, 2017. Orientation is on Friday, June 1 in downtown Atlanta. […]
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THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE FIRST TEAMS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE NOVELIS RECYCLE FOR GOOD PROGRAM FOR 2018. Thanks to your efforts, we were able to recycle over 200,000 aluminum cans that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill. The totals for 2018 are: 6705: 415.5 pounds […]
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All Georgia FRC teams are are part of the Peachtree District and District events are shorter than Regional events (because we have more of them) and don’t allow as much time for teams to work on robots during the competition as teams attending the Regional events do. In order to […]
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Surviving the Robot Inspection Process Robert C. Tate, Ph.D. & Jeff Rees Relax. Inspections are only stressful if you let them be. The inspectors are here to help you enjoy your FIRST experience and are not out to pick on you. Many are team mentors and/or engineers as well as […]
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