First University?

[Chaos in a Can]

At the 11AM seminar for the 2009 control system, there was a chart that showed NI's involvement in the different levels of first.
At the top was a horizontal bar with the different competitions and their age ranges. Below "FIRST Lego League" was an icon for NXT-G with a bar fading out to the right, and to the right of that was a bar fading in and an icon for Labview.
After "FIRST Robotics Competition", above the Labview icon, was "FIRST University" for ages 18+.

If there was an announcement, I missed it.
Does anyone know anything about FIRST University?

[CarterM]

I was really wondering about this too...I think it would be really cool, although, that would take away some college mentors that teams have...

[Kyle Love]

Could college kids be the ones who are supposed to design/build/compete with the robots? I sure hope so!

[Rohan_DHS]

man..that'd be SO awesome!!

I was talking to one of my uni friends about starting a team and just ordering a KOP and building whatever the challenge was...and compete amongst ourselves..

but this would be SO much better

[Chaos in a Can]

You can see the chart at 1:00 on the video here.

[Lil' Lavery]

The chart just says "University" not, "FIRST University". I think they were just referring to the fact that some colleges use the same technologies developed by NI.

[Chaos in a Can]

I stand corrected. That chart does just say university.

It does appear to be the same chart that was shown at the seminar, but I was pretty sure it said FIRST University when it was shown there.

Either the chart shown at the seminar was different than the one in the video, or more likely, I wasn't fully awake (or rather, wasn't fully asleep) when I read that.

[LightWaves1636]

You were probably were imagining "University" saying "FIRST University" because you including everyone's minds racing with FIRST . But yeah, very more than likely they're referring how universities and colleges uses Labview's technology already because like fore example, here at the Colorado School of Mines, they have everyone use Solidworks and NI Labview Programs at some point in their college education.

[Chaos in a Can]

Probably.
The chart is somewhat misleading with all the first competitions, then "University". Add the fact that I was in a cold induced trance for the better part of Thursday, and there's the potential for things to be read which don't exist.

[lingomaniac88]

But still, a FIRST-run program for college students would be awesome. I think that's an established fact.

[Andrew Schreiber]

The closest thing I have found is the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (http://www.igvc.org/) Obviously there is the Darpa challenges but thats not really like FRC...

I second that FIRST at a college level would be amazing...

[XXShadowXX]

Originally Posted by Damien1247

I second that FIRST at a college level would be amazing...

FIRST in universities would be amazing, the robots would be what we dream of doing, the games would be so hard. Just think of the challenge...

[Nate Edwards]

Originally Posted by Damien1247

The closest thing I have found is the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (http://www.igvc.org/) Obviously there is the Darpa challenges but thats not really like FRC...

I second that FIRST at a college level would be amazing...

There are many robotics competitions, most of them are very regional because of the busy lives us college kids live. A new one that my school is participating in is the University Rover Challenge: http://www.universityroverchallenge.org/portal/c/urc

Others that former FIRST students have enjoyed are of course the DARPA challenge, individual competitions like robogames (robot Olympics) and mini BAJA . I know there are a lot more and there are some university teams competing in team 842's NURC.

[jdh]

It'd be neat if it were a year-long challenge instead of six weeks. That'd be pretty sweet, though.

I would participate when I get to college.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Just in case you all haven't heard, Battlebots is coming back and there's going to be a college level competition.