First Nations team member DJ Maiangowi prepares a ring which will be grabbed by his team's robot during a qualifying match at the FIRST Championship, on Thursday, Apr. 25, 2019 in Detroit, Mich.

'FIRST Robotics' is an international competition where students build robots, and battle it out Marina von Stackelberg · CBC News · Posted: Feb 11, 2019 3:00 AM PST | Last Updated: February 11, 2019 ...

This weekend’s FIRST Robotics Windsor Essex Great Lakes competition may look like a video game come to life, but for employers it’s like scouting the STEM version of the Canadian Hockey League ...

But it was also inspiring — because the robots were designed by teams of high-school students participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition, a contest that’s been going on for 21 years now.

A few secondary school teams from the Hamilton area are competing against 400 teams at the FIRST Robotics world championship, which runs April 20 to 23, in Houston, Texas.

Members of Western Tech School Robotics Team are on their way to the World Championships of the FIRST Robotics in St Louis at the end of the month. Working on a robot are left to right, Marcus ...