Google and Boeing Leaders Appointed to FIRST Board of Directors

Google's Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, and Boeing's W. James McNerney, Jr. Join Industry Captains to Oversee FIRST After-School Robotics Programs Serving Nearly 300,000 Youth Worldwide 

FIRST Receives Innovation Generation Grant

Motorola Solutions Foundation Awards FIRST  $200K in Support of Science and Engineering Education Programs

What is FIRST Tech Challenge?

What is FIRST Tech Challenge?

It’s way more than building robots. FIRST Tech Challenge teams (up to 15 team members, grades 7-12) are challenged to design, build, program, and operate robots to compete in a head-to-head challenge in an alliance format.

Iowa Includes FIRST in Groundbreaking Legislation to Promote Student STEM Learning

$4.7 million Iowa initiative viewed as model for nation; showcases FIRST ® Tech Challenge and FIRST ® LEGO® League 

Dean Kamen Encourages More Than 25,000 Students Around The World to RING IT UP! For The 2012-2013 FIRST Tech Challenge Game

FTC launches a new robotics season game that challenges students to think like engineers and scientists

FIRST Announces Scholarship Fund to Honor the Memory of Long-Time Volunteer Dr. Bart Kamen

New, Transportable Scholarships for Students Pursuing Degrees in Biomedical Engineering & Pre-Med

FIRST ULTIMATE ASCENT 2013 Robotics Game Revealed

ULTIMATE ASCENTSM Game Revealed by Dean Kamen to nearly 51,000 High-School Students Worldwide at the 2013 FIRST® Robotics Competition Season Kickoff

  • Students urged to “Make the World a Better Place.”
  • Newly Inaugurated New Hampshire Governor, Margaret “Maggie” Wood Hassan, noted, “We must prepare our young people and our workforce for the jobs of the 21st century, and events like this competition are crucial for those efforts.”

FIRST Appoints Staff to Manage Robotics Programs in Growing Regions

FIRST Appoints New Personnel in Louisiana, New Hampshire, Vermont, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Alberta, Canada to Grow and Manage Robotics Programs

FIRST LEGO League Announces 3rd Annual Global Innovation Award Competition Presented by X PRIZE Foundation

Dean Kamen Inspired by Kid Inventors Worldwide; 5 Million Vote on Finalists

Global Innovation Award Presented by X PRIZE Foundation and supported by The LEGO Group, AARP, Booz Allen Hamilton, Edison Nation, John Deere, and Rockwell Collins

United States Patent and Trademark Office to Recognize Winners in Awards Ceremony


FIRST Names Former Hewlett-Packard New Business Leader as Vice President of Development

International, Afterschool K-12, Robotics Organization Announces Mark Giordono as Vice President of Development