drawer / Mechanical
A program giving teams credits to select specific Kit of Parts components from partner vendors.
where you actually meet FIRST Choice
FIRST Choice is a credit balance your team will forget to spend. It opens before Kickoff, runs in rounds, and the popular items disappear within hours — so the team that assigns one person to browse and order in round one gets sensors, motors, and pneumatics for free that everyone else ends up buying at full price in February.
Free and structured, and none of them need an account to read.
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the jargon travels in packs
Mechanical
The components FIRST provides to every team each season as a starting point for the robot.
read the entryMechanical
The FIRST-provided everybot/starter robot design teams can build as a reliable, competition-ready baseline.
read the entryGeneral
The event in early January that opens the season: the new game is revealed and the build period begins.
read the entryMechanical
Commercial Off-The-Shelf — pre-made parts teams can buy rather than fabricate, within the rules.
read the entryFIRST Choice is one of 70 entries in the catalogue. The guides are where these words get used in order, instead of one at a time.