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About Innovos

The word Innovos is Latin for Innovate which means to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.

Innovos Robotics is a competitive high school level robotics organization aimed to innovate the robotics competion environment.

In the FIRST ® Robotics Competition, Innovos competes head to head on a special playing field with robots they they designed, built, and programmed. During the FIRST compeition, teams of students work under the guidance of professional mentors like Innovos mentors to design and assemble a robot in order to compete in the tournament. This preparation period lasts for six weeks. The regional competitions start in March, and the international competion concludes in April in St. Louis.

The primary purpose of Innovos Robotics is to transform the student culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology leaders.

Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers: K–12 and Beyond

October 12, 2017

Nancy Boyer

Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers: K–12 and Beyond

Aug 30, 2017 By Nancy Boyer, Director of Research & Evaluation, FIRST

The following article was originally published by the IEEE Computer Society in the July 2017 issue of Computer magazine as par...

Girls in STEM Take Center Stage on “The Fosters"

October 15, 2016

FIRST Newsletter – Fall, 2016 – Girls in STEM Take Center Stage on “The Fosters" | FIRST

When actress Emma Dumont (“Aquarius,” “Bunheads”), a FIRST Alumna and Mentor, arrived on the set of Freeform’s family drama “The Fosters” in June, she felt like she was at a real FI...

Black Teens Win FIRST Robotics World Championship

August 17, 2016

By Victor Trammell

A team of predominantly black students (three pictured above) from Cleveland, Ohio have just made history by winning the 25th annual FIRST Robotics Competition World Championship.

The students are attendants at Cuyahoga Community College’s Youth Technology Academy in Cl...

"My Robot is Better Than Your Robot"

August 16, 2016

Black Women in Robotics: Giving Birth to the Future

August 14, 2016

Afrofuturism is a kind of artistic expression that centers Blackness in the sphere of all things futuristic, using elements ranging from fantasy to magical realism to explore everything to do with the Diaspora. You can hear it in the music of Janelle Monae’s Archandroi...

FIRST PROMO VIDEO 2011 FEATURING MORGAN FREEMAN - Produced by Paul Lazarus

August 5, 2016

HU Leads NSF Program Encouraging African Americans to Pursue Robotics : Hampton University News

December 11, 2010

HU Robotics team preparing to compete in Robotics Olympiad

Hampton, Va. – Hampton University (HU) is the lead university of the recently extended Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) Alliance grant. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded...