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Rookie Team

A team in its first year of FRC competition; rookies have access to special grants and awards.

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A FIRST value blending cooperation and competition — helping others even while competing against them; some games reward it directly.

The flagship high-school program where teams have a few weeks to design, build, and program an industrial-size robot to play that season's game.

The intense period after Kickoff (historically ~6 weeks) when teams design and build their robot before competitions.

For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology — the non-profit founded by Dean Kamen in 1989 that runs FRC and its sister programs.

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