FIRST Tech Challenge

FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) is for highschool age kids to create remote controlled robots using the LEGO Mindstorms intelligent brick and TETRIX parts. Four teams compete on the same playing field. The teams form two alliances for the tournament match. An alliance partner in one match could be your opponent in the next match.

In 2009, we started our    FTC team FIX IT.

I'm Daniel Wason and I'm 14 years old. Last year I was on a FIRST LEGO League team. After about 10 years of playing with LEGO it was fun to work with Mindstorm robots. I saw FTC robots at a provincial tournament and wanted to jump into FTC. My favourite part of the FTC experience is designing and building the robot. Other things I enjoy doing are playing video games, hanging out with friends, and active stuff.

I'm Devin Campbell.  My entire life I’ve always wanted to create stuff. When I heard about the FIRST LEGO League, I decide to see what it was like. When I went to the first meeting I decided to try it out so I joined the team. That year the subject of the competition was about nanotechnology. Therefore we had to build a robot to do the tasks that they presented us with and we had to do a research project about nanotechnology.

Building the robot was extremely fun. The first time that we managed to make our robot run in a square was quite an amazing experience. The first year that I was on the team we one the teamwork prize at the provincial competition. Because of the enjoyable experience of being on the team and the fact the we had managed to win an award kept me on the team for one more year, after that I decided to take a break. 

This was my first year on the FIRST Tech challenge. I decided to try it out because it was different that the FIRST LEGO League; it used TETRIX with some LEGO. So far it is going really well and I hope that we have a good time at the competitions and the in the months to come.

Hi, my name is Ian Leslie and I am 16 years old.  I used to be in an FLL team, but this is my first year as a member of an FTC team. The best part of being in an FTC(or FLL) team is that after a while the entire team seems to become friends that you can have fun with. In my spare time I like to do programming (currently I am focusing on programming Flash games), I enjoy programming challenges and am looking forward to programming the FTC robot. I also do a bit of art (hence the self-portrait).

I'm Katherine Silversides.  This is my forth year working with LEGO robots, and my FIRST (great acronym) working with TETRIX.  I enjoy the planning of the programming, and figuring out just why the robot isn't doing what we told it to do, or more accurately, what we forgot to tell it!  When my life isn't involving robots (in one way or another), I'm on a competitive curling team and enjoy squeezing in a time for reading a book or two.  

I'm Sebastian Sutter and I'm 15 years old. I started in 2006 with the NanoStormers in the First Lego League. That year went well for us, winning 1st place in Teamwork at the BC provincial tournament held in Vancouver. One year later, I participated in the Power Puzzle challenge. This year I decided to join the First Tech Challenge to try out the new building system, TETRIX, and for the fun we have as a team. I enjoy building with Lego and TETRIX and also seeing the finished robot on the playing field. Besides FTC, I keep busy with photography, video games and the Air Cadets.

Our FTC team funds the team by running robotics
camps so other kids can discover the fun of robotics.

These FIRST Tech Challenge teams are part of the Victoria
Robotics Club.