1500 7th-12th grade students, 140 Teams, and more than 700 volunteers help create 43 events across 9 counties in Southern California. We need volunteers, great schools, community groups, adult mentors, helpful corporate sponsors, and you. alt-NEXT (http://alt-next.org) is the local Affiliate Partner of FIRST (firstinspires.org), which runs 4 major robotics experience programs in 54 regional across the world.