A GLOBAL ROBOTICS COMMUNITY PREPARING YOUNG PEOPLE FOR THE FUTURE

Who is FIRST?

FIRST inspires young people to be science and technology leaders and innovators by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering, and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership.

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Transportation drives us forward, impacting economies around the world and making us all more globally interconnected. In our 2021-2022 robotics season, FIRST FORWARD presented by Qualcomm, our teams have the power to reimagine a path forward and invent the future of transportation.

Inspiring Generations Worldwide

679K+ students participated in the 2019-2020 season

There are FIRST teams in ~110 countries.

81% of FIRST Alumni Declare Majors in STEM

83% of FIRST Alumni have Confidence to Take Leadership Roles in School

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Welcome to the new season of FIRST FORWARD

During the current season, students they will learn the steps of engineering design, discover new ideas, existing problems and how to solve them, experiment the solution, and share what they have learned with their community.

We are all confident that our students will dazzle us with their creative ideas like every single year , as we celebrating seventeen years since the competition Started in Egypt.

Educators

"I'm a firm believer in FIRST — it boosts confidence, builds collaborative skills, and is hands-on. It takes the best of pedagogy, and best practices in education, and brings it all together."

- Urvi Shah, Director of Educational Technology and Innovation

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Volunteers

"It doesn't matter what you can or can't do. Come! We can certainly use you."

- Phil Salazarz, FIRST Event Volunteer

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FIRST LEGO League introduces STEM to children ages 4-16 through fun, exciting hands-on learning. Participants gain real-world problem-solving experiences through a guided, global robotics program, helping today’s students and teachers build a better future together. FIRST LEGO League’s three divisions inspire youth to experiment and grow their critical thinking, coding, and design skills through hands-on STEM learning and robotics.

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FIRST LEGO League

FIRST Tech Challenge students learn to think like engineers. Teams design, build, and program robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams. Robots are built from a reusable platform, powered by android technology, and can be coded using a variety of levels of Java-based programming.

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