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  1. Remembering Dr. Woodie Flowers: FIRST Announces Memorial Grant and Invites Robotics Community to Celebrate Legacy of Late Distinguished Advisor to FIRST and Pappalardo Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    FIRST Executive Advisory Board and Distinguished Advisor to FIRST, Dr. Woodie Flowers. Dr. Flowers, ... “Woodie” as he was known to all in the FIRST community, passed away unexpectedly on October 11, 2019, at ... the age of 75 due to medical complications. Flowers, an innovative and beloved Pappalardo Professor ...

    bcox - 10/08/2020 - 10:55am

  2. FIRST Alumni Make Manufacturing More Accessible with 3-D Printing Startup

    Voodoo? Schwartz: What inspired Voodoo was we saw an opportunity to use desktop 3-D printers in a way no ... a marketplace for 3-D printing hobbyists to purchase single prints of designs. They eventually sold the company ... to MakerBot, but their mission was unfinished: They ultimately wanted to create a business that would ...

    bcox - 06/14/2018 - 9:13am

  3. 2021 Judging & Interview Process- Frequently Asked Questions

    together a blog to hopefully help clarify the information. We still need more judges to help ensure teams ... overview and volunteer today! If you need help finding the correct “event,” follow these step-by-step ... scheduled? Expect to hear from your Judge Advisor a few weeks or so after the submission portals close (exact ...

    kpilotte - 02/17/2021 - 6:50pm - 2 comments

  4. FIRST: A complete life experience

    found that FIRST is a complete life experience for our kids. Most of the students have to work to help ... support their families, live in dangerous communities, and travel up to three hours to go to school. We ... are blown away by their courage — to accept a technology challenge in an environment where computers, ...

    ssuryadevara - 07/20/2017 - 4:21pm

  5. Scholarship Winner Spotlight: National Fluid Power Association

    Scholarship. The scholarship program received 76 applications this year and helps build awareness of fluid ... per year for four years) to a high school senior who participates in a  FIRST ®   Robotics or National ... used to study engineering at any accredited technical college or university in the United States. Noah ...

    mlong - 07/25/2019 - 8:18am

  6. Students are driving change with FIRST

    will. Teachers wouldn’t help us. We had no classroom. We had to use bathrooms at a nearby fast food ... Bringing FIRST to a struggling public school in a low-income community required sheer force of ...

    ssuryadevara - 10/26/2017 - 9:27am

  7. Our Supporters

    Our heartfelt thanks to the many  FIRST  sponsors, suppliers, alliances and individuals who have ... helped us make an impact on the lives of youth each year. Companies around the world provide generous ... financial support, donate thousands of employee volunteer hours and hundreds of tons of hardware to make  ...

    bcox - 01/10/2024 - 3:06pm

  8. FIRST and UNCF Announce New Scholars Program

    more than $5 billion to support more than 500,000 students, helping them not only attend college, but ... thrilled to partner with UNCF on this new Scholars Program that will help break down financial barriers and ... Negro College Fund), will make scholarships available to students who are pursuing undergraduate ...

    jrutkey - 06/14/2022 - 9:29am

  9. A Message from the Woodie Flowers Award Winners

    Behavior helps more than anything else. The entire FIRST community were ambassadors to this new concept of ... instilled many essential core values in “Scooter” including the importance of Woodie being helpful, kind, ... desire to bring sportsmanship together while building robots. Before most of you were born, the seeds of ...

    kpilotte - 01/03/2022 - 11:00am - 2 comments

  10. FIRST encourages perseverance

    When I joined FIRST with my friends, I wasn't dreaming of engineering. I just wanted to have ... robots for FIRST programs helped me win the Intel Science Award for my medical devices. But FIRST ... got invited to the White House Science Fair. We learned how to deal with failure and improve ...

    ssuryadevara - 10/20/2017 - 3:47pm