The FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) is a competition in which each team designs, builds, and programs a robot to complete certain tasks outlined at the beginning of the season. FTC is a division of FIRST Inspires, an organization which hosts several youth robotics leagues. FTC does not solely focus on robotics; the organization also inspires students to connect with their peers, work with corporations, and make a positive impact on their communities.
For the 2023-2024 season, the challenge is called CenterStage. There are several different components to the game. As usual, there are two periods of the challenge: the autonomous period and the driver-controlled period. The main goals for the autonomous period are to place pixels on a slanted board while navigating through a field with swinging gates and obstacles. During the Driver-Controlled Period, the goals are: delivering pixels to the board to make mosaics, shooting a paper airplane drone to a specific target site, and parking in a warehouse.
See more about CenterStage here: https://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/ftc/game-and-season-info