Clarkson University Hosts Fifth Annual FIRST Championship Tournament

Clarkson University will host the fifth annual FIRST Championship Tournament today, Friday, December 2 and Saturday, December 3. 

More than 400 students and their coaches, comprising 42 teams, are expected to participate in the two-day event. There are 24 teams from 11 local school districts and two private schools, as well as teams from western New York, New Jersey,Connecticut   and Pennsylvania.

On Friday, high school students will participate in the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC). This year’s game, “Bowled Over,” requires students to design, build and program a robot that can place racquet balls into crates and then stack the crates.

Middle school students, ages nine to 14, will compete on Saturday, December 3, in the FIRST Lego League (FLL) challenge. The theme this year, “Food Factor,” features food safety and examines the possible points of contamination our food encounters -- from exposure to insects and creatures, to unsterile processing and transportation, to unsanitary preparation and storage -- then finds ways to prevent or combat these.

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