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  1. 2012 FIRST Championship Celebrates Science, Technology and Robots

    by inventor Dean Kamen, FIRST strives to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science ... and technology.     This year, will.i.am, pop superstar, was on hand to kick off the week-long event, ... grades 4 to 8, 9 to 14-year-olds in the U.S, Canada, and Mexico; 9 to 16-year-olds outside the U.S, ...

    andrea - 10/28/2020 - 3:47pm

  2. Safety

    truly committed to developing and nurturing a safety culture. Safety Manual  To help teams understand ... through the Safety Learning Portal. This training is designed to complement a team’s current safety ... Lockout/Tagout Awareness Hearing Conservation Awareness The portal is a valuable resource to all team members and ...

    Jamee Luce - 09/26/2024 - 10:16am

  3. Next Generation Control System-- Update

    on the deployment of the next generation  FIRST  Robotics Competition control system wanted to ... provide an update to  our February, 2020 pre-pandemic blog on the matter. The whole team is excited about ... getting these new devices to the community, but the roll out needs a bit of revision. Shocker, right?   ...

    Jamee Luce - 09/15/2020 - 5:03pm - 19 comments

  4. A Message about Dr. Woodie Flowers

    condolences to Woodie’s wife, Margaret, and all of his loved ones. He will be greatly missed by the entire ... Advisor to FIRST, and Pappalardo Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts ... FIRST Robotics Competition. Woodie was also critical to establishing the ethos of FIRST by coining the ...

    kplasket - 09/26/2024 - 10:17am - 160 comments

  5. Youth Robotics Teams Inspire at FIRST ® Championship in Houston

    around the world to research and invent new ways to move goods safely and efficiently, and how to improve ... their innovation, teamwork, and robotics skills to the test at the annual FIRST Championship at the ... George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.   The four-day event came down to a heart-pounding ...

    rbhatti - 05/13/2022 - 9:58am

  6. Record-Breaking Crowds Celebrate Youth Robotics Teams & STEM Innovation at FIRST ® Championship in Houston

    teams and their robots must focus on making the right energy decisions and find innovative ways to ... teamwork, and robotics skills to the test at the 2023 FIRST Championship presented by BAE Systems, which ... like to express my sincere gratitude to all the families, friends, and spectators who cheered on these ...

    rbhatti - 04/20/2024 - 9:00pm

  7. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to build a rocket!

    All FIRST volunteers receive a FIRST Year of Service pin based on how many years they have volunteered at the 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, and 20 year intervals. And yes, FIRST has an extraordinarily high volunteer retention rate and we do have twenty year volunteers ...

    tucker - 04/15/2015 - 2:24pm

  8. Woodie Celebration, Religious Exemptions to Championship Assignment, Beta Testing

      Woodie’s Celebration of Life Reminder As we said in this blog, teams are invited to participate ... 2 received emails last week with invitations to the event. We will not be accepting requests for tickets ... to Houston Championship Assignment As we did last year, we are allowing FIRST Robotics Competition ...

    Jamee Luce - 11/12/2019 - 4:47pm - 2 comments

  9. FIRST inspired my high school to invest in young engineers

    5943 “Bad News Gears,” from Caramel, New York, and was inspired to major in aerospace and mechanical ... engineering. After noticing how many of the school’s FIRST students were applying to MIT and other high-profile ... mechanical engineering. I had also applied to MIT and didn’t get accepted, but because there were so many ...

    bcox - 06/14/2018 - 11:02am

  10. FIRST taught me how to work smart, like a startup

    When I wrote an essay to apply for Northeastern University’s full-tuition NU- FIRST Scholarship, ... I found it difficult to convey what FIRST meant to me in just 500 words. FIRST not only taught me about ... engineering; it taught me how to learn. Right off the bat, I discovered the benefits of failing early and ...

    bcox - 01/11/2018 - 9:19am