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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,

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..

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..

Katlin Walsh (pictured top right) got her start on a FIRST^® Robotics Competition team in Canada. Her experiences there molded her interests for the future and set her on a path to seek out a career..