The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts is a 2011 non-fiction narrative book by American writer Neal Bascomb.

Then the book describes how the 2009 team winds its way through a 6-week build season, enduring many struggles from mechanical failures to a bout of sickness.

Science historian Robert P. Crease wrote in the Wall Street Journal that The New Cool "is effective in capturing the students' loyalty, dedication and ingenuity."

[1][2] James Floyd Kelly of Wired stated that "any students or adults considering jumping into FRC for the first time should read this book.

The rights to the book have been optioned to Scott Rudin through the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group.