How to get involved
There are two competitive student robotics organizations in Nevada: FIRST Nevada and REC Foundation’s VEX programs. The local community team, the Reno Robot Club, is open to all ages.

Be an advocate for robotics programs
Encourage funding and support for robotics programs in secondary education by sharing our videos and our message with legislators, school board members and your local school teachers and administrators.
Become a coach or mentor
Teachers, parents, college students and community members can become a robotics team coach or mentor, or volunteer to help out with practices and competitions.
Start a robotics program in your school
Anyone can take this step and support EDAWN’s goal of 100% of our regional schools having some form of robotics programming!
Join a robotics team
Being on a robotics team is really fun! You’ll meet lots of great people and learn skills such as coding, designing, teamwork and problem solving.
- Inquire through your school to see if there’s an existing team to join.
- See if there is a team in your area listed through FIRST.
- Contact FIRST Nevada to get information about local FIRST teams. There are many school-based teams, as well as groups of students from homeschools, other organizations (Boys & Girls Clubs, 4-H, etc.), and families/communities
- If you are interested in non-competitive robotics, consider joining the Reno Robot Club. This club is open to all ages.
