FIRST® mentors and coaches are building tomorrow by volunteering their time, sharing their knowledge, and guiding students throughout the season. They are impacting 660,000 students and 79,000 teams..
Tesla’s Rahil Mehta, a FIRST alum and mentor, works with students on FIRST Robotics Competition Team 668 in San Jose, California.
"I’ve always been a car person, but what also attracted me to Tesla..
Jonathan Schwartz and Max Friefeld bonded over their shared passion for engineering, robotics, and entrepreneurship as college students. They started a 3-D printing software company as college..
FIRST alum Melanie Sanchez had a transformative meeting while competing with her FIRST® team at the 2018 FIRST Championship. There, she met Tesla’s Chris Reilly and learned about an opportunity to..
A Former Astronaut on the Importance of Collaboration, Technology, and New Perspectives
Meet Mike Kaurich, a FIRST Alum who moved from Michigan to Baltimore, Maryland in 2012 to serve as a FIRST AmeriCorps VISTA. During service, he helped under-resourced youth in Baltimore access FIRST,..
Pam is a FIRST® alum from FIRST® Robotics Competition Team 1257 “Parallel Universe” in Scotch Plains, NJ. After high school, she earned a degree in psychology with an education minor and now leads a..
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Running a FIRST® program can seem like a daunting task, especially if you’ve never been exposed to one before. Personally, I am still new to many aspects of FIRST, and can understand how other..
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