2015 World Robotics Conference

[Phoenix Spud]

Today we are excited to announce FRC will be part of the World Robotics Conference in Beijing China!

From November 21 to November 25, 2015 the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) will hold the World Youth Robotics Competition at the Beijing National Center on the grounds of the former 2008 Olympics. This will be part of the largest robotics event in Chinese history and will be the largest and most comprehensive robotics competition ever to be held in China.

Chinese president Xi Jinping declared that the world economy is currently undergoing a third great revolution called the "robotics revolution". As a consequence the Chinese Ministry of Education is investing large sums of funding towards youth robotics programs towards this aim and has invited a number of different global robot programs to demonstrate themselves on a national platform for potential expanded public support in China. FTC and FRC are part of this effort and with this opportunity there is the chance to grow the programs on a massive scale in China.

We will be playing the 2013 game Ultimate Ascent. FRC teams who have confirmed their attendance include:

• 2013 World Champions 610 The Coyotes from Toronto, Canada
• 1884 Griffins from London, United Kingdom
• 3132 Thunder Down Under from Sydney, Australia
• Aggregate Team from Turkey

Since registering the first 2 FRC teams in China in 2012, 3132 is excited to continue our support of FIRST in China. This will be our 6th trip to the country - we're starting to learn Mandarin in preparation for more trips in the years to come! In addition to attending the event, we will be traveling around the country delivering FIRST workshops.

For more information on the event, please check out the video the Chinese Government put together. (Note: it often plays best in Internet Explorer.)

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTI1NjQ5MTIwMA==.html.It