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organization/contest founded by in 1989.

http://www.usfirst.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST

As of 2006, over 1,125 high school teams of 28,000 students from Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, and more compete to build 100-125 pound robots that can complete a task that changes every year. Teams are given a standard set of parts and the game details at the beginning of January and are given six weeks to construct a competitive robot that can accomplish the game's task.

their "little league" uses [Lego Mindstorms] http://www.usfirst.org/jrobtcs/flego.htm

the Vex Challenge (started in 2005). It is designed for high school students who don't have the financial, temporal, or other resources for the Robotics Competition ([FRC])

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