Searching for...

This page contains some of the things the archive is particularly looking for, either in digital or physical form to digitize.

• Virtually any materials, photographs, videos, etc. related to FIRST in the 90s
  • Photos of robots, matches, pits, or anything else from the 1990s-mid 2000s
  • Information, photos, or other related to Rumble at the Rock
  • Photos, video, and match information from 1997, in particular 1997cmp
  • Information and photos from kickoffs
  • Information and photos from FIRST Place
  • Anything related to FIRST between 1989 and 1992
    • Any additional information about FIRST Points
  • Any additional information about the 1991 Maize Craze test game and internally built Maize Craze robots
  • Any additional information about the pre-1998 test game
  • Anything about the Placebos and Disney Showbots
  • Full-size photos of Al Gore visiting team 120 in 1998

• Manuals and other official media
  • Full 1992 awards list
  • Full 1993 awards list
  • 1994 manual
  • Higher quality copy of the 1994 Yearbook
  • Full 1995 manual
  • Event programs
    • Full 1994, 1995 and 1996 Championship event programs
    • 1997 New England and Mid Atlantic event programs
    • 1998 event programs
  • Calendars
    • The full 1999 calendar was found in the 1999 HOT Team time capsule

• Bracket information
  • 1993 bracket and seeding results (blank and/or filled)
  • 1994 bracket (filled)
  • 1995 New Hampshire Tournament bracket and seeding results (blank and/or filled)
  • 1996 New Hampshire Tournament bracket and seeding results (blank and/or filled)
  • 1997 regional brackets and seeding results (blank and/or filled) and Nationals bracket (filled)
  • 1998 Southwest bracket (blank and/or filled), Mid-Atlantic bracket (blank and/or filled), seeding results
  • 1999 match results

• Video and video tapes
  • Video cassette included in the 1992 kit of parts
  • Tapes (probably Betacam) sold to teams of their matches in the 1992 competition
  • 1992 five minute promo video
  • 1993 competition highlights video
  • High res (or tape) of the 1993 20/20 coverage
  • 1994 promotional video
  • 1994 ESPN2 coverage
  • 1994 interview of Dean Kamen on CNN's Pinnacle (originally aired fall 1994, later March 26, 1995)
  • 1995 EPCOT wrap show (once posted on the FIRST website)
  • C/NET Central coverage of 1995 National Championship aired on USA Network May 6th to 8th 1995 and SciFi channel May 6th and 7th
  • 1996 EPCOT wrap show
    • The 1996 Championship Highlights, seemingly compiled from a cut of the 1996 ESPN coverage, was recently digitized by team 67
  • 1997 Nationals satellite feed
  • WTSP TV "10 Teen TV" 1997 profile of team 14 in 1997
  • Providence, Rhode Island local coverage of team 121's robot before shipping (WJAR, WPRI, WLNE)
  • 1999 Discovery Channel Special aired in early April 2000
  • Unaired Nickelodeon documentary about the 1999 Championship
  • Tapes (or better transfers) of the 1997 EPCOT wrap video and 1997 Championship ESPN coverage
    • The 1998 ESPN coverage was recently digitized by team 67
  • Any team-produced videos from the 1990s-mid 2000s
  • Any recordings of matches from the big-screen feeds from the 1990s-mid 2000s
  • Any "home video" recordings of anything FIRST related from the 1990s-mid 2000s

• Offseasons and scrimmages
  • Anything from Rumble at the Rock
    • 1996 photos, video, team list, results
    • 1997 photos, video, match scores
    • 1998 photos, video, results
    • 1999 photos, video, results
    • frc23 1998 Chairmen's Award materials
      • Really, literally anything related to Rumble at the Rock
  • Information about the 1997 and 1998 UTC scrimmages
  • Information about River Rage 1997, 1998, 1999
  • Information about the 1998 and 1999 West Michigan Robotics Invitational
  • Any other earlier scrimmages/public demos (in particular 1999 and before)
    • Early Canada FIRST info
  • Anything about Team Ford FIRST and Sweet Repeat