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My high school, the California Academy of Math and Science, didn’t have a football team; we had robotics teams. In fact, a quarter of the student body was involved in robotics. When I heard about it,..

FIRST Alum Sarah Rudasill, from FIRST Robotics Competition Team 4266, the New Oxford GhostBotics, from New Oxford, Pennsylvania, received the Bart Kamen Memorial FIRST Scholarship. Participating in ..

John Stegeman is a FIRST Alum who started a FIRST Tech Challenge team at John Burroughs School. After graduation, he went on to work on a NASA exhibit at St. Louis Science Center, building and..

FIRST Alum Nicki Bonczyk fell in love with engineering after joining FIRST Robotics Competition team 107, R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S., from Holland, Michigan. After high school, she studied product design and..

When it comes to hiring, FIRST looks for the same things as a lot of other employers. Once you get past the specific skills and experience required for a particular role, we start looking for those..

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FIRST Alum Amanda Pham is from FIRST Tech Challenge Team 5875, GENIUS, in Marietta, Georgia. She says the strong role models she met through FIRST sparked her passion for volunteerism. Amanda is now..

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..

Hello FIRST Alumni,

Together with our mentors, volunteers, and sponsors, FIRST^® is inspiring FIRST ..