There are a great number of sites on the Internet that are of interest to FIRST teams. Here are some of the best. Take a moment and look through some these informative sites.

The most obvious FIRST related site is the organization's own: www.usfirst.org. On this site, you can find information about joining FIRST, this year's game, and updates to the competition manual. Their site also tells about FIRST's philosophy, the history of the competition, and FIRST's other robotics programs.

A helpful resource for all teams is the Chief Delphi Forums. Team 47 from Pontiac Central High School runs this message board, where any FIRST team member can post a question and get a near-instant response from the other 6000 members of the FIRST community who use the ChiefDelphi Forums. Members can also upload photos to the site's FIRST Picture Gallery.

For teams entered in the animation competition, one of the most useful sites ever is the FIRST CAD Library. This site is a database of 3D models of most of the parts in the kit FIRST provides, all free for use in animation and modeling.

Innovation FIRST, the manufacturer of the robot control system, has a site filled with useful technical information about the robot controller and related electronics. Also related to programming the robot is Microchip's site. Microchip manufactures the PIC chips at the heart of every team's robot controller, and has lots of comprehensive information about the chips.

Another useful resource is the Western Region Robotics Forum, a group of committed FIRST teams that organizes many useful seminars and mock competitions in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2002, our team and team 252 won the WRRF's California Games mock competition.

If you would like to submit another FIRST resource to this list, please contact us, as we are always looking for additional links to add!