If you are unfamiliar with FIRST robotics, you should get yourself familiarized. The FIRST Robotics Competition (or FRC for short) is an international robotics competition where teams ranging from twenty to one hundred students build game-playing, 120-pound robots in just six weeks to compete in tournaments all across the globe. If you are a freshman through senior in high school, you are eligible to join.
âCaratâ is a term used for the denoting the weight of gemstones. âKaratâ is a term that describes the purity level of gold. Karats are in a base 24 system, which is a fancy way of saying tkae the karats on your jewelry and divide it by 24 to get the percentage of pure gold. 24 karat (24k) is pure, 100% gold.
The 10k simply stands for 10 karat, which is the purity of the gold plating. The full translation of this stamp would be: âGold plated jewelry with 5% of the pieceâs total weight consisting of 10 karat gold, and the other 95% consisting of sterling silver, brass, or some other less valuable materialâ.