I am looking at potential colleges for next year and would like to find one with an active FIRST team. How many colleges have first teams? Is there a list somewhere of what schools have teams?Thanks.
You are looking for a college with a FIRST team now? I hope you are a junior because very few colleges accept somebody on such a short notice.
Anyways, I know there are groups in colleges that help support FIRST teams. Georgia tech is the biggest, umm I’ve heard Drexel has, UCF has a couple of people that go to a school that is 4 minutes away and help but dead line to get into UCF for fall has passed. I heard 3 years ago that MIT helped a team once, i don’t know if they still do. You should look at colleges where regionals are held. There should be a lot of support for FIRST teams there.
WPI, Clarkson, RIT, Purdue…Im not remembering any others now…
Cory
Don’t forget the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Team 171. It has one of the best engineering colleges in the midwest.
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while by no means a complete listing, check out FIRST’s website on scholarships http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2003/scholarshipsummary.htm I’m fairly certain that all colleges having FIRST scholarships have FIRST teams, but I might be wrong. Either way, it still a good resource to look at!
Georgia Tech was an active team that was extremely helpful in putting the Peachtree Regional together this year.
~Tom Fairchild~
Whatever happened to Buzz U? This was a web site which listed many college sponsored teams, team members who were attending colleges, contact information for most college sponsored teams.
You can also go to the map on FIRST’s site and click on states to see which teams are available in that area. Most college sponsored teams will appear pretty obviously.
Here’s a short list of teams which I know are college sponsored or college run.
171: University of Wisconsin at Plattsville
190: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
229: Clarkson University
356: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Hendrix College
500: US Coast Guard (did they used to be a lower number team?)
677: Ohio State (did they used to be a lower number team?)
832, 1002, 1127: Georgia Tech
906: University of Missouri at Rolla
I thought Virginia Tech had an active team, but couldn’t find them on FIRST’s site. I know there are dozens more teams with college sponsors. I don’t know how active the college students are on the teams though.
as I read that last post, I remembered 401, which is the Virgonia Tech team
Someone should compile a list of First teams which are sponsored by colleges and run by college kids helping and such.
I know there is 1020 sponsored by Ballstate and 1064 is college sponsored (cant think of the name of the school right now, but Kevin who used to be on 71 is involved in that team and i think DJ is going to school there next year) and there is still 461. And michigan tech has a team as well.
As Josh said, I am on 1064 now, which is partly sponsored by MSOE (Milwaukee School of Engineering) . Marquette University, also here in Milwaukee, is sponsoring a new team as well (1220 I believe??). The Michigan Tech team is 857.
Kev
Indeed, Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana sponsors team #1020. I would recommend this team to anyone who is interested in majoring in something other than engineering and something non-technical. (And on the plus side, their team is totally run by the high school students, so any effort you put in is what you get out of it… i.e. you can still have time to adjust to college, put your feet up, and relax a while before diving right into the build season.)
I believe the kids are welcoming any mentors, BSU or otherwise.
125 - Northeastern University
Who could forget the only (I believe) college FIRST national champion.
GO NuTrons #125!
Yea, we are the only college team to have won a National Championship… did that in 2001.
go to: www.neu.edu for general Northeastern U. Stuff
go to: www.coe.neu.edu for college of engineering stuff
Boston Baby!!!
ByE
erin
(I think I should be getting paid by the school for this, don’t you? 
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*Originally posted by Erin Rapacki *
**(I think I should be getting paid by the school for this, don’t you?
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If they paid us, it might take the fun out of it…
(Clarkson Admissions just slips me a bag with a dollar sign on it filled with cash, once a month…) 
back in the rookie days of team 25, we were sponsored by Rutgers… i may be mistaken, but now adays, Rutgers may be dealing with 224
I hate to get off topic, but I´m just a little confused. A college won a national championship? I mean was the team a high school team who´s robot was built by a college or was it the college who used college students to drive the robot.
Anyways, your list so far is from what ive compiled
Georgia tech
Verginia tech
Michigan Tech
Maybe ever school that ends in tech ? lol
Drexel
Ohio State
Northeastern University
University of Central Florida my school 
Ball State University
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Marquette University
University of Wisconsin
University of Missouri at Rolla
RIT
Purdu
WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute
US Coast Guard
Clarkson University
University of Wisconsin at Plattsville
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Hendrix College
Maybe
MIT My school for 6 weeks
Rutgers
Team #125 is sponsored by Northeastern University and TEXTRON systems. In 2001 my team won Nationals along with MOE and HAMMOND and 2 others (I can’t recall), making us the first college sponsored team to become National Champions. TEXTRON Engineers, Professors and NEU College Students mentor area high school students… so that’s how we work!
ByE
erin
Thats how our team works too, except that the University of Wisconsin-Platteville is our only sponsor and we have 3 small local high schools involved.
Cornell University sponsors team 639 – “Code Red Robotics”
I feel that more and more of the rookie teams are being sponsored by colleges, so your best bet is to look up the higher numbers! 
I’ll have to check it out! It’s great when Colleges sponsor FIRST teams, especially when the money comes from alumni and not from the college students’ tuition.