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FIRSTAlum Sarah Rudasill, fromFIRSTRobotics Competition Team 4266, the New Oxford GhostBotics, from New Oxford, Pennsylvania, received the Bart Kamen MemorialFIRSTScholarship. Participating in..

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

FIRSTAlum Amanda Pham is fromFIRSTTech Challenge Team 5875, GENIUS, in Marietta, Georgia. She says the strong role models she met throughFIRSTsparked her passion for volunteerism. Amanda is now..

When I wrote an essay to apply for Northeastern University’s full-tuition NU-FIRSTScholarship, I found it difficult to convey whatFIRSTmeant to me in just 500 words.FIRSTnot only taught me about..

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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,..