Captures young curiosity by exploring real-world scientific challenges, learning teamwork, and working with motorized LEGO® elements. USRA is the operational partner for FLLJr.
FIRST LEGO League teams research a real-world problem and design, build, program a robot using LEGO MINDSTORMS®. UMBC is the operational partner for FLL.
Teams of middle and high school-aged students are challenged to design, build, and program a robot to play a floor game against other teams’ creations. USRA is the operational partner for FTC.
Combining the excitement of sport with the rigors of science and technology we call FIRST Robotics Competition the ultimate Sport for the Mind. Chesapeake FIRST is the operational partner for FRC.
The USRA STEMaction Center is the current partner for two FIRST Robotics programs in the state of Maryland and Washington DC corridor:
- FIRST Tech Challenge in Maryland and Washington DC
- FIRST LEGO League Junior in Maryland
Our mission is to inspire, engage and develop the next generation science and technology workforce through K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs.
We operate out of the USRA Headquarters (https://www.usra.edu) in Columbia, Maryland.
We have fields available as a practice space for FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics Competition teams. If your team is interested in using this space, free of charge - you can make a request here!