FRC Introduction

Table of contents

  1. FRC Introduction
    1. What is FRC?
    2. Parts of an FRC Match

What is FRC?

FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a robotics competition where each year, there is a prompt that introduces a new game, with different ways to score points. Competitors have to create a robot that hopefully can score as many points as possible for that prompt in order to win.

For example, the 2024 prompt, a game called Crescendo, involved scoring notes (foam rings) into an amp (lower target) and a speaker (higher target) to gain points. At the end of the game, robots had to hang from a stage to score bonus points.

Parts of an FRC Match

A FRC match is made of several parts.

  • Autonomous Period – When the robot operates without input from drive team
  • Teleoperated Period – The time when the drive team remotely controls the robots.