The Woodie Flowers Memorial Grant seeks to further the legacy of Dr. Woodie Flowers, a gifted professor who championed and implemented a hands-on learning philosophy that reshaped engineering and design education, who also collaborated with FIRST  Founder Dean Kamen to develop the FIRST Robotics Competition. Only students who have excelled in FIRST by winning the FIRST Tech Challenge or FIRST Robotics Competition Dean’s List Award, are eligible to apply for this prestigious portable and renewable annual Grant. 

The Woodie Flowers Grant Selection Committee once again is impressed with the caliber, passion and accomplishments of the FIRST Dean’s List Winners who applied for the Grant and has selected Videet Mehta as the 2024 Grant recipient. 

Videet is a six-year participant of FIRST Tech Challenge. A Dean’s List winner from FIRST Tech Challenge Team 14503 “Robo Sapiens” in Houston, Texas, Videet is a diligent and successful student who has shared his impressive engineering accomplishments as a FIRST Tech Challenge leader and mentor in and around his community. 

Videet intends to pursue biomedical engineering and computer science when he heads to college and eventually wants to become a physician. He is also looking forward to staying involved with FIRST by continuing to mentor FIRST Tech Challenge teams in his community and building connections with other FIRST alumni. 

Woodie’s wife and Scholarship Committee member, Margaret Flowers had this to share about Videet’s selection: 

"I was impressed by Videet's creativity and his presentation skills as demonstrated by his ability to make engineering concepts easy to understand for newcomers to the FIRST Tech Challenge world.  Those are the traits that particularly reminded me of Woodie!"