FIRST Robotics High School Team

Dassault Systèmes announced that DELMIA is sponsoring the International Academy’s (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Team. The school is employing the DELMIA V5 Robotics suite as part of its software solution in the competition. DELMIA has offered a free limited license of its software to the other 100 Michigan schools participating in the FIRST Robotics event with 10 high schools to date taking advantage of this offer.

The FIRST Robotics program charges teams of high school students -- sponsored and assisted by mentor designers, engineers and programmers -- to design, assemble and test a robot capable of performing a specified task in competition with other teams. Remote-controlled robots piloted by students go head-to-head in short ball games, battling it out to earn points during a two minute round.

In 2006, the competition will reach over 28,000 high-school aged young people on over 1,125 teams in 33 regional events with teams participating from Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, Mexico, the U.K. and almost every state in the U.S.

Through its DELMIA Academic Partner Program, DELMIA software is being used as part of the curriculum at 20 universities, colleges, high schools, technical schools and other academic institutions throughout the United States and Canada. The DAPP program has shown that students are more likely to get hired into the workforce when they are already trained in the latest computer-aided digital design and manufacturing software programs, which are increasingly being implemented by today’s manufacturers.

DELMIA is a premier brand for digital manufacturing solutions, focused on two unique software applications that can be used to streamline manufacturing processes. DELMIA Automation provides solutions to digitally design, test and validate the control of a machine, workcell, or entire factory line and DELMIA PLM provides the process and resource capability to enable continuous creation and validation of manufacturing processes as related to the product throughout the entire product lifecycle.

A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire life cycle of products from conception to maintenance.