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Originally Posted by JohnFogarty

I've researched a lot of the competitions that are robotics specific. None have anywhere near the competition experience or iterative design opportunities that FIRST provides unless you can show me I'm wrong. I understand that FIRST's goal is to get us interested in/into STEM education, but once you get here it's a bit disappointing to say the least.

There isn't an opportunity for me to join a DRC team in South Carolina. RoboCup doesn't look interesting to me really. I like NASA's Centennial Challenge Return Rover competition a lot, but I haven't been able to find nearly as much funding for it as say I could with my FRC team. Never seen microtransat before. I seem to think there might be a College Level Vex competition but I don't know much about it and there aren't any College Level events anywhere near South Carolina.

I remember them also piloting some Aeriel drone college level FIRST competition. Wasn't too popular though from what I saw at champs one year.

You're right that none are quite like FRC, but if you're looking for a design challenge that at least similar, the closest I've found is the NASA Robotic Mining Competition.