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58-716: New Prairie United School Corporation operates five schools in Indiana. New Prairie High School's athletic director is Mr. Brian Williamson. New Prairie High School is a founding member of the Northern State Conference, which includes the schools of Bremen, Culver Community, Jimtown, John Glenn, Knox, Laville, Triton, and New Prairie. IHSAA sports offered include: New Prairie's FIRST Robotics Competition team, Las Pumas, completed their ninth season of competition in 2015. In Indiana's inaugural District Competitions, they claimed their first ever championship. They were chosen as

116-573: A FIRST team—and a cameo by Dean Kamen . Episode 6 in the second season of the Netflix original series Trinkets featured a FIRST Robotics Competition competition. On March 18, 2022, Disney+ released a documentary directed by Gillian Jacobs titled "More than Robots", which follows four teams in the 2020 season , leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic . For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology FIRST also operates FIRST Place,

174-411: A competition, one does so only with their allies. However, with the element of gracious professionalism, one would share resources with their opponent as well. For example, if a team needs a part or tool to fix their robot, it is expected that any team, even an opposing team would give that team a hand in order to compete. This helps students learn that success is in learning and helping others no matter

232-671: A competitive marching band that performs in many parades and competitions in the area, along with the home game halftime shows. They perform in summertime parades in Walkerton, Bremen, LaPorte, New Carlisle, and Michigan City. In 2010 and 2011, the marching band won first place in the LaPorte Fourth of July Parade. They were invited to march at the Indy 500, as well as Indiana and Purdue Universities. The Marching Cougars compete in many ISSMA competitive marching competitions from September–October. In 2014,

290-526: A documentary film called I, Wombot . The film premiered during the 2011 Dungog Film Festival . A book called The New Cool was written by Neal Bascomb about the story of Team 1717 from Goleta, California as they competed in the 2009 game season. A movie adaptation directed by Michael Bacall is being produced. The CNN documentary "Don't Fail Me: Education in America", which aired on May 15, 2011, followed three FIRST Robotics Competition teams during

348-549: A more accessible and affordable option for schools. FIRST has also said that the FIRST Tech Challenge program was created for those of an intermediate skill level. FIRST Tech Challenge robots are approximately one-third the scale of their FIRST Robotics Competition counterparts. The FIRST Tech Challenge is meant to provide a transition for students from the FIRST LEGO League Challenge competition to

406-625: A previous season), and 268 are "rookie teams" (meaning that 2023 was their first season of competition). The countries represented are listed below: (in decreasing order of number of teams as of 2023) The FIRST Championship is the culmination of the FIRST Robotics Competition season, and occurs in late April each year. Roughly 800 teams participated in two Championship events in 2018, held in April in Houston, Texas and Detroit, Michigan . After

464-534: A program similar to the FIRST Robotics Competition was formed. It is aimed at 9 to 14-year-old students and utilizes LEGO Mindstorms sets (EV3, NXT, RCX) to build palm-sized LEGO robots, which are then programmed using either the ROBOLAB software (RCX-based systems) or Mindstorms NXT or EV3 software (for NXT or EV3-based systems respectively) to autonomously compete against other teams. The ROBOLAB software

522-761: A real-world situation for students to learn about through the season. In 2020, the program was re-branded to FIRST LEGO League Challenge. The simplistic nature of its games, its relatively low team startup costs, and its association with the LEGO Group mean that it is the most extensive of all FIRST competitions, despite a lower profile and fewer sponsors than FIRST Tech Challenge or FIRST Robotics Competition. In 2009, 14,725 teams from 56 countries participated in local, regional, national, and international competitions, compared with around 1,600 teams in roughly 10 countries for FIRST Robotics Competition. FIRST LEGO League Explore (formerly known as FIRST LEGO League Jr.)

580-474: A rearrangement of the programs around the city. FIRST itself is a self-supporting organization; however, individual teams typically rely on outside funding sources. It also takes significant outside funds to run regional events and the FIRST Championship. In 2010, FIRST was a recipient of a Google Project 10^100 grant. Teams may request that team members, whether mentors or students, contribute to

638-452: A recipe for engaging young people, Kamen says, turned out to be relatively straightforward. "It's after school, not in school. It's aspirational, not required," he explained to me. "You don't get quizzes and tests, you go into competitions and get trophies and letters. You don't have teachers, you have coaches. You nurture, you don't judge. You create teamwork between all the participants. We justify sports for teamwork but why, when we do it in

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696-506: A regional FIRST Robotics Competition competition, most notably episode 8 "Girl Code". In June 2018, HBO aired a Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel episode, which in a segment, the correspondent Soledad O'Brien interviewed Dean Kamen about FIRST and FIRST Robotics Competition and then later interviewed students from various FRC teams. The February 25, 2020 episode of the ABC sitcom Black-ish features recurring character, Jack Johnson, joining

754-547: A research facility at FIRST Headquarters in Manchester, New Hampshire , where it holds educational programs and day camps for students and teachers. FIRST operates as a non-profit public charity corporation. It licenses qualified teams, usually affiliated with schools or other youth organizations, to participate in its competitions. The teams in turn pay a fee to FIRST ; these fees, the majority of which are redistributed to pay for teams' kit of parts and other services, comprise

812-410: A six-week period to build robots capable of competing in that year's game that weigh up to 125 pounds (57 kg). Robots complete tasks such as scoring balls into goals, hanging on bars, placing objects in predetermined locations, and balancing robots on various field elements. The game, along with the required set of tasks, changes annually. While teams are given a kit of a standard set of parts during

870-548: A subsidiary of Comcast , and was available via OnDemand for the month of January 2015. In 2016, Christina Li, a member of Team 217, the ThunderChickens, was spotlighted on an episode of Nickelodeon's The Halo Effect entitled "Hello World". A coding camp that Li organized for young girls was featured on the episode, and 217's robot from the 2015 season made an appearance. The fourth season of The Fosters (2013 TV series) had several episodes featuring characters competing in

928-400: A variety of vice presidents and additional officers for a total of 10 individuals. The first and highest-scale program developed through FIRST is the FIRST Robotics Competition, which is designed to inspire high school students to become engineers by giving them real world experience working with engineers to develop a robot. The inaugural FIRST Robotics Competition was held in 1992 in

986-692: Is a major supporter of FIRST . In 2018, the first episode of season five of STEM in 30 , the National Air and Space Museum 's television show for middle school students, featured FIRST . FIRST seeks to promote a philosophy of teamwork and collaboration among engineers and encourages competing teams to remain friendly, helping each other out when necessary. Terms frequently applied to this ethos are Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition ; terms coined by Woodie Flowers and Kamen that support respect towards one's competitors and integrity in one's actions. The concept of Gracious Professionalism grew from

1044-489: Is a variation of the FIRST LEGO League Challenge, aimed towards elementary school children, in which kids ages 5 to 8 build LEGO models dealing with that year's challenge. At least one part of a model has a moving component. The teams participate in exhibitions around the country, where they demonstrate and explain their models and research for award opportunities. Unveiled in 2019, FIRST LEGO League Discover

1102-402: Is based on National Instruments ' LabVIEW industrial control engineering software. The combination of interchangeable LEGO parts, computer 'bricks', sensors, and the aforementioned software, provide preteens and teenagers with the capability to build simple models of real-life robotic systems. This competition also utilizes a research element that is themed with each year's game, and deals with

1160-483: Is designed for children ages 4 to 6 and centers on a playful introduction to STEM concepts and ideas. Teams use LEGO Duplo kits to complete each year's challenge and present their models at exhibitions similar to those found in FIRST LEGO League Explore. The FIRST Championship is the annual event which celebrates the finale of all of their programs by bringing them all together for their final rounds in

1218-655: Is operated by a 5-member Board of Education. Members (as of 2015) are: The district, located in northwest Indiana , includes 1 High School, 1 Middle School, and 3 Elementary Schools. In December 2011, Prairie View Elementary and Rolling Prairie Elementary Schools of the New Prairie United School Corporation were recognized as 2010-2011 Four Star Schools by the Indiana Department of Education. Out of 1,780 Indiana public schools, 162 earned this distinction. Eleven of 238 non-public schools also received

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1276-474: The 2011 season . The documentary profiled one student from each team, covering different geographic and socioeconomic levels: Shaan Patel from Team 1403 Cougar Robotics, Maria Castro from Team 842 Falcon Robotics, and Brian Whited from Team 3675 Eagletrons. On August 14, 2011, ABC aired a special on FIRST called "i.am FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll" that featured many famous musical artists such as The Black Eyed Peas and Willow Smith . will.i.am himself

1334-679: The FIRST Robotics Competition. FIRST Tech Challenge was developed for the Vex Robotics Design System, which is available commercially. The 2005 FVC pilot season featured a demonstration of the FIRST Vex Challenge using a 1/3 linear scale mock-up of the 2004 FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Frenzy: Raising the Bar . For their 2005-2006 Pilot Season, FVC teams played the Half-Pipe Hustle game using racquet balls and ramps. For

1392-494: The FIRST Championship event, where they competed in a tournament. In addition to on-field competition, teams and team members competed for awards recognizing entrepreneurship, creativity, engineering, industrial design, safety, controls, media, quality, and exemplifying the core values of the program. As a result of COVID-19, the amount of active teams decreased during the 2021 season; however, numbers began to increase during

1450-641: The Manchester Memorial High School gymnasium . As of 2019 , over 3,700 high school teams totaling over 46,000 students from Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Turkey, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United States, the United Kingdom, and more compete in the annual competition, with more than 9000 teams (active and inactive) in existence. The competition challenge changes each year, and

1508-899: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Jon Dudas was selected to be the President of FIRST . At the Championship in St. Louis, former President of the United States Barack Obama spoke via a pre-recorded message from 2011 to 2014. FIRST has received the attention of politicians in Canada as well. Ontario MPP Bob Delaney and Ontario MPP Vic Fedeli have made remarks in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario regarding their FIRST Robotics Competition experiences and showing their support. NASA , through its Robotics Alliance Project,

1566-478: The 2006-2007 FIRST Tech Challenge season, the teams competed in the Hangin'-A-Round challenge using softballs, rotating platforms, a hanging bar, and a larger 'Atlas' ball which is significantly larger than most Vex robots and harder to manipulate. Competitions were held around the United States, Canada, and Mexico. For the 2008-2009 FIRST Tech Challenge season, a new kit was introduced, as FIRST moved away from

1624-518: The 2015-2016 FIRST Tech Challenge season, in a partnership with Qualcomm , the LEGO Mindstorms NXT was replaced as the "brain" of the robot by an android device that communicates to a separate "driver station" android device via WiFi Direct. In addition, students were allowed to use either MIT App Inventor or Android Studio (Java language) to program their robots. In 1998, the FIRST LEGO League Challenge (formerly known as FIRST LEGO League),

1682-438: The 2022 championships concluded FIRST announced that the world championship would take place at a single location, Houston, Texas, for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. This was later updated through 2027. The PBS documentary "Gearing Up" followed four teams through the 2008 season. In the television series Dean of Invention , Dean Kamen made appeals promoting FIRST prior to commercial breaks. In 2008, FRC Team 1114, Simbotics,

1740-473: The 2022 season. As of 2023, there were 3,300 high school teams with approximately 83,000 high schoolers across 31 countries competing. Most teams reside in the United States, with Canada , Turkey , Mexico , Israel , China , and Australia contributing significant numbers of teams. FIRST was founded in 1989 by American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen , with inspiration and assistance from physicist and MIT professor emeritus Woodie Flowers . Kamen

1798-524: The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . In 2011–12, the theater presented Once Upon a Mattress and The Murder Room . In 2012–13, the theater presented Footloose and The Glass Menagerie . In 2013–14, the theater presented Les Miserables and The Matchmaker . In 2014–15, the theater presented Into the Woods and The Night of January 16th . In 2015-16, the theater presented Grease . In 2016-17

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1856-588: The Championship Event will be held in St. Louis, Missouri for 2011 through 2013. Each year the FIRST Robotics Competition has scholarships for the participants in the program. In 2011, there were over $ 14 million worth of scholarships from more than 128 colleges and universities, associations, and corporations. The district competition system was introduced in Michigan and as of 2017 has expanded to include districts in

1914-680: The Pacific Northwest, the Mid-Atlantic, the Washington DC area, New England, Georgia, North Carolina, Ontario, and Israel. When they were created in 2017, the Ontario and Israel districts became the first districts outside of the United States. The district competition system changed the traditional "regional" events by allowing teams to compete in multiple smaller events and using an associated ranking algorithm to determine which teams would advance to

1972-571: The VEX platform and worked with several different vendors to create a custom kit and control system for FIRST Tech Challenge known as TETRIX . Based around the LEGO Mindstorms NXT "brain" and including secondary specialized controllers to overcome the limitations of the NXT, teams use a Bluetooth link between the NXT and a laptop running FIRST Tech Challenge driver station software. A team's drivers then use either one or two USB gamepads to control their robots. For

2030-437: The annual Kickoff, they are also allowed and encouraged to buy or fabricate specialized parts. FIRST Robotics Competition is one of five robotics competition programs organized by FIRST , the other four being FIRST LEGO League Discover, FIRST LEGO League Explore , FIRST LEGO League Challenge , and FIRST Tech Challenge . The culture of FIRST Robotics Competition is built around two values. "Gracious Professionalism" embraces

2088-1066: The band competed in Scholastic Class A state finals, with their show "Twisted Wonderland", and in 2018, they went to Class B semi-state with their show "Breathe." The concert band season takes place during the winter and spring, and jazz band and pep band play at the home girls and boys basketball games. Many NPHS band students have been selected to perform in a variety of honor ensembles, including IBA All-District, Ball State Honor Festival, ISU Honor Festival, and IMEA All-State Honor Bands. Other clubs include anime club, art club, color guard, dance team, academic decathlon, bowling, cheerleading, discussion club, environmental club, FBLA, French club, French honor society, Hoosier academic super bowl, Hoosier state spell bowl, HOSA, karate club, kazoo club, key club, mock trial, model club, national honor society, pep club, PSA, quiz bowl, robotics, rocket club, RSVP, SADD, soccer, Spanish club, Spanish honor society, student senate, varsity letter club, and yearbook. The district

2146-485: The circumstances. With this in mind, the judges give a Gracious Professionalism award at every FIRST Robotics Competition tournament, to a team that shows outstanding gracious professionalism. The term "Gracious Professionalism" was created by Dr. Woodie Flowers , former FIRST National Advisor and Pappalardo Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The most common method of monetary and resource sponsorship teams comes through

2204-431: The classroom, do we call it cheating?" Most of all, it was a nonjudgmental space, where in contrast science and math in traditional educational settings had been soured with embarrassment and uncertainty. Kamen has stated that FIRST is the invention he feels most proud of and predicts that participants will be responsible for significant technological advances in years to come. The first FIRST Robotics Competition season

2262-561: The community surrounding the team. Since the majority of teams are based around a school or a school district, schools often provide the infrastructure needed to run a team. Local governments and individual citizens may provide funds and other support to teams. Local universities and colleges often give significant funds to teams. Corporate donations and grants usually provide the majority of a mature team's funds. Major donors include BAE Systems , Google , Raytheon , Apple Inc. , NASA and National Instruments . Each year during his speech at

2320-615: The competition inherent in the program but rejects trash talk and chest-thumping, instead embracing empathy and respect for other teams. "Coopertition" emphasizes that teams can cooperate and compete at the same time. The goal of the program is to inspire students to be science and technology leaders. 2022 was the 31st year of the competition. 3,225 teams, including more than 80,000 students and 25,000 mentors from 26 countries, built robots. The 2022 season included 58 Regional Competitions, 90 District Qualifying Competitions, and 11 District Championships. In 2022, over 450 teams won slots to attend

2378-456: The costs of running a team. For example, members may pay a fee or donate tools and facilities. Teams frequently give other teams support. This may mean providing funds, tools, facilities, or mentorship. Gracious professionalism and Coopertition are core tenets of the FIRST philosophy. Gracious Professionalism is a major belief in the FIRST community. At every regional and national competition,

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2436-706: The game have been released on the first Saturday in January (except when that Saturday falls on January 1 or 2), and the teams have been given six weeks to construct a robot that can accomplish the game's tasks. In 2011, teams participated in 48 regional and district competitions throughout March in an effort to qualify for the FIRST Championship in St. Louis in April. Previous years' Championships have been held in Atlanta, Georgia , Houston, Texas and at Walt Disney World 's Epcot . On October 7, 2009, FIRST announced that

2494-528: The honor this year. To be considered a Four Star School, a school's combined English/Language Arts and Math ISTEP+ passing percentages must fall into the top 25th percentile when compared to schools statewide. A school must also have made adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act to qualify. FIRST Robotics Competition FIRST Robotics Competition ( FRC ) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work during

2552-447: The judges look for teams that are graciously professional. Gracious professionalism is about "competing on an even playing field". That means that each team wants their competition at the best. The way the team system is set up is that every team is matched up with two other teams per match at random. Therefore, a team's opponent in one match may become an ally in the next match. Traditionally, outside of FIRST , when one shares resources in

2610-437: The kickoff event, founder Dean Kamen gives the student participants a homework assignment. It often involves spreading the word about FIRST in various ways, such as increasing attendance at regionals (2005), mentoring rookie teams, making sure that FIRST -specific scholarships are applied for (2004), and researching the capabilities of motors and disseminating that information to other teams (2006). In 2007, Dean's homework

2668-407: The majority of revenue of FIRST . The supreme body of FIRST is its board of directors , which includes corporate executives and former government officials. FIRST also has an executive advisory board and several senior advisors; these advisors include engineers, involved volunteers, and other senior organizers. Day-to-day operations are run by a senior management team, consisting of a CEO and

2726-403: The next level of the competition. In general, there have been pushes to move more regions to the districts system; California, Texas, and New York have especially been pushed to move to the district system. The FIRST Tech Challenge, formerly FIRST Vex Challenge, is a mid-level robotics competition announced by FIRST on March 22, 2005. According to FIRST , this competition was designed to be

2784-458: The parade, with one robot cutting the ribbon and the others shooting confetti. In the 2014 movie Transformers: Age of Extinction , a FIRST Robotics Competition Robot built by Team 2468, Team Appreciate, for the 2012 Season was featured in Cade Yeager's garage shooting the foam basketball game pieces from Rebound Rumble . The 2015 Kickoff was, for the first time, broadcast by NBCUniversal ,

2842-454: The same event. The FIRST Championship was split into two events, initially held in St. Louis, Missouri, and Houston, Texas, in 2017 due to the rise in teams. From 2018 through 2020, the FIRST Championship will be held in Detroit, Michigan, and Houston, Texas. At the 2014 Championship, FIRST announced changes to the 2015 structure that will bring a more " Olympic Village " feeling, and involves

2900-449: The teams can reuse only certain components from previous years. The robots weigh at most 125 pounds (56.7 kg), without batteries and bumpers. The kit issued to each team contains a base set of parts. Registration and the kit of parts together cost about US$ 6,000. In addition to that, teams are allowed to spend another $ 5,500 on their robot. The purpose of this rule is to lessen the influence of money on teams' competitiveness. Details of

2958-530: The theater presented "Camp Rock". In 2017-18 the theater presented " Annie ". In 2018-19 the theater presented " The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee ." Mrs. Kortney Brennan and Mr. Bennett are the current directors. All current Alumni are currently fighting or have lost their fight with the lung diseases they caught due to the stage 3 asbestos that was and still is in the NPHS auditorium. Directors: Color Guard Instructors: The New Prairie “Marching Cougars” are

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3016-516: The third member of the victorious alliance of team 234 CyberBlue and team 1024 Kil-A-Bytes, both from Indianapolis, at the Purdue District Event, held at the Co-Rec. The program includes four choirs: All choirs are under the direction of Mr. Forrester. New Prairie Theater Company has fall play and spring musical each year. In 2010–11, the theater presented Moon over Buffalo and Joseph and

3074-423: Was disappointed with the number of kids—particularly women and minorities—who did not consider science and technology careers and decided to do something about it. As an inventor, he looked for activities that captured the enthusiasm of students and decided that combining the excitement of sports competition with science and technology had the potential to inspire students. Distilling what sports had done right into

3132-499: Was featured in an ongoing storyline on the hit Canadian TV drama "Degrassi: Next Generation". Team 1114's 2006-2007 world champion VEX robot made an appearance, as well as their 2008 world champion FRC robot. During the 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition season, FIRST team 3132, Thunder Down Under, was followed by a Macquarie University student film crew to document the first year of FIRST Robotics Competition in Australia. The crew produced

3190-518: Was for each team to contact their government officials (e.g. mayors , legislators , governors , federal officials) and invite them to a FIRST regional or the championship to expose them to the competition and increase the level of political awareness of FIRST . In 2008, it was to inform the media more about FIRST . In 2009, the homework was for each team to have all students, mentors, and other persons involved with their team (past or present) register with FIRST . One goal of this registration process

3248-542: Was in 1992 and had one event at a high school gymnasium in New Hampshire . That first competition was relatively small-scale, similar in size to today's FIRST Tech Challenge and Vex Robotics Competition games. Robots relied on a wired connection to receive data from drivers; in the following year , it quickly transitioned to a wireless system. 3,304 teams from 31 countries competed in 2023 Charged Up . Of these, 3,036 are "veteran teams" (meaning they have competed in

3306-523: Was the executive producer of the special. The program placed a special focus on the FIRST Robotics competition, even though it included segments on the FIRST Tech Challenge , FIRST LEGO League , and FIRST LEGO League Jr. From 1996 to 1998, the FIRST Championship was covered by ESPN . For the 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade , five FIRST Robotics Competition teams and their robots led

3364-639: Was to provide FIRST with data to demonstrate that many people had benefited from their experiences in FIRST robotics and to encourage more funding of robotics-related events. At the World Championship in Atlanta, speakers included former President of the United States George Herbert Walker Bush in 2008 and United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in 2010. In 2010, former U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce and Director of

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