FIRST Announces 2014-2015 Rookie Team Grant Program for Students in Grades 7-12 Across North America

Need-Based Grant to Provide Aid to 700+ New – Middle and High-School – Teams Enrolling in the FIRST® Tech Challenge Program

FIRST Announces Qualcomm as New Strategic Partner

Leading Provider of Wireless Technology Teams with FIRST to Support Young Inventors

FIRST Enables More Students to Participate in Life-Changing Robotics Event with Expansion of Annual Championship

FIRST to Host Two Championship Events

2017: St. Louis, MO and Houston, TX

2018- 2020: Detroit, MI and Houston, TX
 

18,000+ Students Bring Their Custom-Built Robots and Team Spirit to the Largest Sport for the Mind Showdown, the 2015 FIRST Championship

will.i.am, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, rock band Boys Like Girls, singer-songwriter Christina Grimmie, Government Officials, NASA Engineers, and Top Inventors On Hand to “Make it Loud” and Celebrate Student Achievements in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math During World’s-Largest Robotics Event in St. Louis

Championship Presenting Sponsor Qualcomm Incorporated, will.i.am, and Dean Kamen cheered on young innovators from 40 countries as their robots took to the playing fields at the annual robotics championship


FIRST Welcomes Three New Members to Board of Directors

CEO of NRG Energy, President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Dean of the College of Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Join FIRST Board

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