Boston Tech Initiative FIRST Tech Challenge in MA

03/29/2024

Our sister organization, The Robo Hub STEAM Center at 86A Sherman Street, is now taking registrations for summer camps, grades K-8. We will soon be notifying our FTC community about internship and teaching opportunities - stay tuned! In the meantime, feel free to check the classes out and and share with your friends and family who may have kids interested in the sessions.

The Robo Hub offers courses in Lego Robotics, 3D Design, and Coding And Circuitry, making us the ultimate STEAM center in Cambridge!

03/08/2024

We are looking forward to our 2023-2024 MA FIRST Tech Challenge State Championship this Saturday, March 9th at Andover High School in Andover MA!

The Public is invited to attend.

Come join us and cheer on our 36 MA FIRST Tech Challenge teams participating in the CENTERSTAGE, sponsored by RTX, final event in of the FIRST in Show season in MA. We are excited to be advancing four (4) teams from this event to the FIRST World Championship event taking place in Houston, TX April 17-20 Details at https://www.firstchampionship.org/

The competition will be held in the Collins Center (comfortable seating!) with opening ceremonies starting at approximately 10:20 am.

Can't join in person? Watch on-line at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr1EnaLWNXI

Location and Agenda details are available on our website: https://bostontechinitiative.org/event/ma-state-championship-2024/

To all our competing teams - Best of Luck!

Driver Pre-Meeting Questionnaire Deadline to Submit: 3/4 at 5:00 pm The Optional Pre-States Driver’s Meeting Zoom is being held on Wednesday March 6 at 6 PM EST. The Zoom link is: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/6192378949?pwd=8CGTEXRipeGNVpoBQbaAbi19vgvq2t.1

08/13/2023

BTI Builders is wrapping up it's summer LEGO workshops in the next few weeks and we still have openings if you are looking for a last minute robotics themed workshop experience for your child: https://bostontechinitiative.org/summer-workshops/

We still have PARTIAL and FULL Scholarships available - if you are in need of financial assistance please don't let this stop your youth from participating.

Be sure to share this soon-to-end opportunity with friends, family and others in your community.

We hope you have your child join us!

in partnership with: BTI BUILDERSLEGO® ROBOTICS WORKSHOPS Build Your Child’s Future in STEM With Us! What is FIRST Lego League? Our workshops will help your child get ready for FIRST Lego League (FLL) and help current FLL team members enhance their skills. FLL Questions? The FLL program in MA is ...

08/13/2023

Join us Saturday, September 9th for the Massachusetts FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) 2023-2024 Season Kickoff! To see our Kickoff Locations and Agenda visit our website Kickoff Page at https://bostontechinitiative.org/ftc-kickoff-2023/ - 2023-2024 FTC Teams, register now for the location of your choice!

The Kickoff is open to the public and we invite parents, grandparents, teachers, administrators and anyone interested in STEM and robotics to join us and learn about the FIRST Tech Challenge and how to get involved. Visit https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/ftcto learn about FIRST Tech Challenge today!

FIRST is a global robotics community preparing young people for the future and the world’s leading youth-serving nonprofit advancing STEM education.

05/24/2023

We are teaming up with NE FIRST (https://www.nefirst.org/) to bring LEGO Robotics Workshops to youth grades 4-6 this summer in Cambridge, MA! Go to https://bostontechinitiative.org/summer-workshops/ for more information. We are also seeking Teaching Assistants! JD and application process are available on this page.

in partnership with: BTI BUILDERSLEGO® ROBOTICS WORKSHOPS Build Your Child’s Future in STEM With Us! What is FIRST Lego League? Our workshops will help your child get ready for FIRST Lego League (FLL) and help current FLL team members enhance their skills. FLL Questions? The FLL program in MA is ...

03/04/2023

We are looking forward to our 2022-2023 MA FIRST Tech Challenge State Championship tomorrow at Andover High School in Andover MA!

The Public is invited to attend.

Come join us and cheer on our 36 MA FIRST Tech Challenge teams that will be participating (best time is in the afternoon to see the action).

Can't join in person? Watch on-line at https://www.twitch.tv/ANDOVERROBOTICS

Location and Agenda are available on our website athttps://bostontechinitiative.org/event/2023-ma-state-championship/

AndoverRobotics.com

03/05/2022

Good Morning 2021-2022 FIRST Tech Challenge MA State Championship Teams! We can't wait for today's even to begin in a few short hours!

Those at home can watch the exciting robot play on the Natick Pegasus Education Channel at https://www.natickpegasus.org/

For an Agenda of today's activities go tohttps://bostontechinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/03/CMP-AGENDA-_2.pdf

Best of Luck to all teams today!

Natick Pegasus Home Page

02/26/2022

Thank you to all of our 2021-2022 MA FIRST Tech Challenge Teams for 2 AMAZING weekends of live competition at our Qualifier Events! Our MA State Championship will take place a week from tomorrow on Saturday, March 5th, at Natick High School. Although closed to spectators, we will be posting a link to watch online along with the Event Agenda at https://bostontechinitiative.org/event/ma-state-championship/ shortly.

Have a great weekend!

01/03/2022

**TIME SENSITIVE**/ROUND 1 EVENTS TO BE RESCHEDULED DUE TO COVID-19

We made the difficult decision tonight, with input from our Round One Event Hosts, to reschedule the upcoming January 8th and 9th (Andover High School), January 15 (Canton High School), and January 16 (Natick High School) events due to the unprecedented spread and transmissibility of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.

Our Round 2 events (January 29, and February 5th and 6th) are NOT impacted.

Our Round 1 Event Hosts will be working with their school administrations starting tomorrow to secure new dates, and we will share them with you as soon as they are known. They will not be before January 29th.

Our goal continues to be to deliver In-person play - safely - and we feel this is the most viable path forward to allow us to do so.

We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding as we work to put together our plan for these impacted events.

12/24/2021

From all of us at Boston Tech Initiative, we wish our teams, volunteers, and all of our FIRST Tech Challenge family members Happy Holidays. We look forward to seeing you in the New Year!

11/04/2021

Greetings 2021-2022 Massachusetts FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) teams and all interested in participating, volunteering, sponsoring or just learning more about FTC in the state and how to get involved. We will be posting more information on this page in the coming weeks. In the meantime we ask you visit our "home base" of information, our website at https://bostontechinitiative.org/ and check it frequently for updates.

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