2019 FRC Deep Space

MANCHESTER, N.H., January 5, 2019― Inventor and FIRST® Founder Dean Kamen launched the 2019 FIRST® Robotics Competition season today with the Kickoff of a new robotics game called DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE Presented By The Boeing Company before a crowd of 1,200 people, including New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu and U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire, hometown of FIRST Headquarters. Nearly 100,000 high-school students on 3,790 teams at 146 venues around the globe joined the 2019 Kickoff via live broadcast.

Kamen, president of DEKA Research & Development, encouraged students to take the inspiration and skills they gain from FIRST to solve critical problems. “We are here to make sure you have the tools to cure cancer, build clean energy supplies, and make water, food, and cybersecurity available worldwide – to make the world a better, healthier place,” he said.

DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE finds FIRST Robotics Competition teams collecting samples on Planet Primus. Two competing alliances will combat unpredictable terrain and weather patterns, making remote robot operation essential to their mission on the planet. With only two minutes and thirty seconds until liftoff, the alliances must gather as many cargo pods as possible and prepare their spaceships for departure before the next sandstorm arrives.

information from Details of DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE Presented by The Boeing Company Robotics Game Revealed | FIRST (firstinspires.org)