Students at North Catholic High School (NCHS) can participate in FTC 12578 by taking an elective course called FIRST Class Robotics. During the Fall Semester, students will work as a team to design, build, program, wire, and market a robot. The team will be competition-ready and can advance through the First Tech Challenge, competition framework.

 

Students are divided into sub-teams based on interest these include:

• Mech-E (mechanical engineers who design and build the robot)

• Soft-E (software engineers who write code and program the robot)

• Spark-E (electrical engineers who wire the circuitry of the robot)

• Bizz-E (business managers who brand and market and fundraiser for our team)

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At NCHS, FTC 12578 allows students to participate and experience FIRST without committing to an additional extracurricular activity.