Question about robotics

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I'm an international and I wanna major in robotics when I go to college.
Thing is, unlike other science olympiads and fairs such as IMO, IPhO, ISEF to name a few, there is actually not one international competition with robotics to participate. That sort of makes me feel disadvantaged. </p>

<p>Couple days ago I did some research and figured out there's something called FIRST Robotics competition; but that's only for those in the states so that definitely leaves me out. </p>

<p>What else can I do? Need some help with me ec.</p>

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<p>Are you kidding?!?!?!?!?!?!
FIRST is for people all over the world!!!</p>

<p>Its just extremely hard because you need over 30,000USD in funds and engineering mentors and dozens of students.</p>

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<p>30,000USD
Heh?</p>

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<p>well, thats what our team had to raise. The robot itself is 8,000 usd.
You guys will have to raise even more because you are international.</p>

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<p>o…kay thanks for the info.
But simply out of curiosity, how much does it(meaning robotics) help to get into MIT? Do I have to win like five different international championships?</p>

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<p>You could always do FTC which is only $1000 for the robot and takes only 4-7 students to build.</p>

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<p>^That’s what we do at my school.</p>

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<p>FIRST is definitely overpriced T_T, our team last year almost had to take out loans before we finally got a sponsor who was willing to cover us.</p>

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<p>You might want to consider pulling together a VEX Robotics Team. Kits aren’t overtly expensive, the registration fee is 75 USD for one robot then 25 USD for each additional robot. Local competitions are held across the globe and there’s an annual international competition which is truly nerd nirvana.</p>

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<p>^On that topic, the one competition I went to killed me. I like to call myself a nerd, but oh man… it bored the crap out of me.
I decided just to help build the robot and not go to the competitions.</p>

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<p>Well, MIT offers scholarships for it(needs-based). FIRST that is. While overpriced, FTC is worth. FRC is more than worth it, since it requires a more in-depth look at engineering.</p>