FIRST Robotics Competition

2025 Kickoff

let's make waves!

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Join us for the
2025 FIRST Kick-off
& Workshops

Saturday
January 4, 2025

Exploding Bacon Team 1902 and Gra-V Robotics Team 5816
Official FIRST Kickoff

Register at www.firstinspires.org for the
FL-Orlando-UF/IFAS Extension Orange County Kickoff
FIRST EVENT LINK

UF/IFAS Extension Orange County
6021 S. Conway Rd. Orlando, FL 32812

Teams are invited to join us for workshops, activities, kick-off, and kit distribution.
Kickoff workshops will focus on how you can get competition ready with general FIRST Robotics Competition topics.

tentative Agenda

9:30 Teams arrive
9:40-9:45 Welcome
9:50-10:25 Session 1 workshops:
10:30–11:05 Session 2 workshops:
11:10-11:45 Session 3 workshops:
12:00-1:00 Kickoff broadcast
1:00 Kit distribution
2:00 End of day

Let’s MAKE WAVES IN REEFSCAPE

Combining the excitement of sport with the rigors of STEM, FIRST® Robotics Competition (ages 14-18 / grades 9-12) teams use sophisticated technology to build and program industrial-sized robots to play an action-packed, alliance-based game on a themed field that changes every year. With guidance from mentors and sponsors, students learn engineering and problem-solving skills that they can apply to real-world situations today and in the future. Teams of students compete for awards, while they also create a team identity, raise funds, hone teamwork skills, and advance respect and appreciation for STEM within the local community.

In REEFSCAPE℠ presented by Haas, a new challenge launching January 4, 2025, FIRST Robotics Competition teams will use their engineering skills to strengthen one of the ocean’s most diverse habitats – making waves to build a better world.