Our mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership. - FIRST Mission, taken from their website.

The 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition will pit teams from across the US and the rest of the world against each other in a battle of the bots. This competition will take teamwork to build, promote and operate the teams' robots in a friendly competition of Lunacy. The official Lunacy competition video is linked below.

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