A team of high school students known as the "SPaRC 5665" is traveling to the U.S. to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), an international high school robotics competition held in Los Angeles, California.Bahadır Can, one of the 70 members of the "SPaRC 5665" comprised of high school students from all across Turkey, explained that"Each person dealt with building a part of the robot. What makes our robot different from others is its climbing capabilities. During each competition, a rope is hung and the team whose robot climbs to the top of the rope gets a point. The matches is composed of several games, including a ball game. The team that gets the most points will qualify for the finals," said Can, adding that the robot they built is practical for daily life and can be used to collect garbage, clean streets and wipe windows.The FIRST Robotics Competition is an international robotics competition for high school students organized annually. Every year, teams composed of high school students and teachers work to build game-playing robots over the course of a six-week period. To qualify for the competition, robots are required to complete tasks such as scoring goals using balls, flying discs into goals, tossing inner tubes onto racks, hanging on bars and balancing robots on balance beams. The rules of the game change every year to keep excitement fresh and to give each team a more level playing field.Last year, the competition celebrated its 25th anniversary and a total of 3,128 teams with roughly 75,000 students and 19,000 mentors from 24 countries built robots for the competition. After the regional competitions, district-qualifying competitions and district championships, 600 teams won slots to attend the FIRST Championship, where they competed in a tournament. In addition to the on-field competition, team members competed for awards in the categories of entrepreneurship, creativity, engineering, industrial design, safety, controls, media, quality and for the exemplary core values of the program.