SolidWorks will support any FIRST Robotics Team that ask us at
www.solidworks.com/SponsoredDesignContest. Click the Apply button. We have sponsored robotics teams for 7 years.
After you fill out an application, we will send you software. Then we send you information about our contests such as March Robot Madness
www.solidworks.com/robotics or the VEXplorer scholarship contest with Grant Imahara, Revell and Robot Magazine (see the announcement page of this website).
SolidWorks supports FIRST teams at the Regional level. SolidWorks employees are judges and mentors and SolidWorks customers are heavily involved in robot competitions.
Students who design great products should be open to all tools for their own evaluation on what is best for the project.