community

Hello FIRST Alumni,

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

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..

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..

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 ..

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..