ENGAGE MANUFACTURING’S NEXT GENERATION RAFFLE To Benefit the National Robotics League Take advantage of this opportunity to directly influence technology education at your local high school and prepare students for careers in modern manufacturing. Win an all new Markforged Mark Two Desktop Carbon Fiber 3D Printer or a Haas Desktop Mill for your local school. […]
NRL Official Merchandise
Official Merchandise from the NRL National Competition is still available for purchase. Short & long sleeve shirts, hoodies and tie-dye’s are available for purchase. Click HERE to link to the online form.
The BattleBots 2019 season is here!
Starting June 7th the ALL NEW season of BattleBots will kick off on Discovery! Tune in at 8pm* to enjoy the metal-crunching, battery-burning, wheel-popping 2-hour premiere! This season will contain sixteen two-hour episodes, each featuring more battles and new behind-the-scenes footage where we learn how the robots work and what it takes to compete and […]
K-State Robotics Team traveling to Pennsylvania for “Battle of the Bots” competition
MANHATTAN, Kan. (KSNT) – The K-State Robotics Team is traveling to Pennsylvania this weekend a national “Battle of the Bots” competition. The event, sponsored by the National Robotics League, is a double-elimination, single-combat battle tournament bracket. For each battle, two teams put their robots into opposite corners and the first team to break, flip or […]
Technical center students playing vital role as RoboBOTS competition nears
The Crawford County Career & Technical Center won’t field a team at this year’s annual RoboBOTS competition, but it will make its presence felt. On March 30, 41 teams from 21 schools are set to clash with 15-pound robots doing battle in a round-robin tournament at Meadville Area Senior High School. There’s no RoboBOTS team […]
NRL 2019 National Competition Registration is Open
Team registration is open. Perhaps all forms of chaos and destruction aren’t created equal. Sparks will Fly and Metal will definitely Crunch at the NRL 2019 National Competition at the Convocation Center on the campus of California University of Pennsylvania on May 17-18. Join us in the name of maximum carnage. Take advantage of this […]
NTMF Scholarships Season is Open
Are you pursuing an educational pathway to a career in manufacturing? In 2018, the National Tooling and Machining Foundation awarded $46,500 in scholarships last year to students pursuing a post-secondary educational pathway to a career in manufacturing. This year, it could be you. Please note that students that apply for either scholarship must have a […]
2018 Skills Gap Report – Where are the people
As growth in the U.S. economy continues and manufacturers create more and more jobs in a thriving sector, the industry may have as many as 2.4 million jobs to fill between now and 2028. This 2018 report is Deloitte’s and The Manufacturing Institute’s fifth skills gap study to understand the depths of today’s talent shortage in manufacturing, […]
THE NEW SEASON OF BATTLEBOTS PREMIERS THIS FRIDAY
20 all new episodes All new format Airs Friday nights at 8pm on Discovery AND Wednesday nights at 9pm on Science Channel (with extra footage!) BotFans, prepare thy televisions for glorious mechanized combat, for the ultimate robot fighting show has returned! That’s right, starting this Friday, May 11th, BattleBots will return with twenty, all new […]
NTMF Scholarships
The 2018 Scholarship Deadline is April 1, 2018! In 2017, the National Tooling and Machining Foundation awarded $2,000 scholarships to 13 students across the country, for a total of $26,000. $2,000 makes an impact for students. These scholarships can mean the difference between a student taking classes or dropping out for a semester – or […]
MFG DAY RESOURCES
Are you thinking about hosting an MFG Day event this October? Check out our list of MFG Day Resources to get your questions answered and gather some suggestions for great MFG Day Events. Share your event with the NTMA [table id=3 /] Share your event with the NTMA
2017 NRL National Competition Update
This year, we had 64 teams from across the United States competing in the NRL National Competition on May 19th and 20th at California University of Pennsylvania. We had an exciting event with the first ever NRL Craftsman Rumble ending out the first night. Congratulations to all of our participating teams and to Admiral Peary […]
