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Originally Posted by dtengineering
The history of FIRST in Canada is somewhat complex, as the international version of FIRST was preceded by... what was it called... Canada FIRST? I'm not personally up on all the ins and outs and details as we did not get involved until the FIRST Canadian Regional (now the GTR) was up and running and Canada FIRST was no more.
My understanding, however, from those who have tried both, is that this is a good thing, and I believe you can find out more from team 188, Woburn Robotics, the first non-US FRC team.
Jason |
Back in the late 1990's there was a robotics program in Canada called Canada FIRST, it was based on similar principles to what FIRST was at the time. However as my school found out quickly it wasn't of the same quality of US FIRST. As you can find out from their website Woburn was the first international team in US FIRST starting in 1998 (if you look through the history books there may be some familiar names on that team
). In 2001 my team (610) joined US FIRST, leaving Canada FIRST after one year (I believe 296 joined at some point around here or before, don't know their history). In 2002 teams 188 and 610 (with the help of many other people) founded the Canadian Regional (now known as the Greater Toronto Regional). Since then the program in Canada has expanded greatly with three years of the Waterloo Regional now, started the Lego League 4 years ago, and now on its second year of the FTC.