FIRST Season Launch – Vancouver

H.R. MacMillan Space Centre 1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Come to the Season Launch to find out more about this year’s challenges, learn about robot programming, come up with ideas for the FIRST LEGO League research project, and find out how to form a team or if there’s a team in your area. This event is for newcomers to FIRST and will intro the […]

Free

FTC Kick-off Vancouver

Centre for Digital Media 577 Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Find out about FIRST Tech Challenge and learn about this year’s game challenge called SkyStone. See a playing field set-up for this year’s game and participate in workshops to get your season started. Kickoff is free and open to the public. This year, there will be two Kick-off locations, Victoria on Sept. 14 and Vancouver […]

FLL Kick-off Vancouver

Centre for Digital Media 577 Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Find out about FIRST LEGO League and learn about this year’s game challenge called City Shaper. See this year's  field set-up and participate in workshops to get your season started. Kickoff is free and open to the public. Registration (Deadline Sept 15th): https://forms.gle/3BYTqGJtR2UFU7yX8

FTC Pro-D Workshop

Mt. Douglas Secondary 3970 Gordon Head Rd., Victoria, BC, Canada

Workshop is for teachers interested in mentoring a FIRST Tech Challenge team.

Free

FTC Workshop – Choosing a Drive System

UVIC, ECS Building Engineering Computer Science Building, Victoria, BC, Canada

Time Change - The workshop will be starting just after 5pm and run until about 6:30pm. The University of Victoria is hosting a series of workshops to help FIRST Tech Challenge teams learn the skills for designing, building and programming robots. Most of the workshops will be lead by FIRST alumni who are current UVic […]

Symbiosis Showcase

Royal BC Museum 675 Belleville St., Victoria, BC, Canada

Royal BC Museum is hosting a hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) Showcase to engage learners of all ages. FIRST will have a variety of different robots you can drive or program.

Free

Planning Commitee

Monthly meeting to coordinate activities for all four programs.

CAD Assemblies

University of Victoria, Engineering Lab Wing, Room B215 Engineering Lab Wing, Victoria, BC, Canada

The University of Victoria is hosting a series of workshops to help FIRST Tech Challenge teams learn the skills for designing, building and programming robots. Most of the workshops will be lead by FIRST alumni who are current UVic students. The workshops will be held at the University of Victoria on Friday afternoons from 4:30 […]

Programming with Vuforia

University of Victoria, Engineering Lab Wing, Room B215 Engineering Lab Wing, Victoria, BC, Canada

Learn how to program autonomous using Vuforia.

Free

Designing a Lift

University of Victoria, Engineering Lab Wing, Room B215 Engineering Lab Wing, Victoria, BC, Canada

Which type of lift should your team use?

Free

FIRST events are free and open to the public.