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Originally Posted by Wetzel
What Woodie was doing at MIT was a class that was a little less then 92s Maize Craze but more then 8th grades making a mousetrap car. My understanding is that Dean saw how excited the students were to actually BUILD something and compete that he wanted to do that for highschool students.
1989 is the year that FIRST the organization was legally incorparated, and 1992 was the year of the first offical competition. The time between was fundrasing, finding schools to participate, finding sponsers for the teams, makeing a game. There is a lot of prep work for each years game, and they had to make the entire orginazation too.
Wetzel
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The MIT 2.70 contest (now 2.007) was a
lot more than a mouse trap competition. Usually, over 200 students filled the MIT machine shop to build some fairly sophisticated teleoperated robots.
The competition structure gave rise to FIRST's qualification/elimination structure.
The class and competition still go on (see
http://pergatory.mit.edu/2.007/) under the supervision of Prof. Abner Slocum.