FIRST Message
Every year, there are students and mentors that compete against one another using their knowledge, dedication, and skill. The difference is that they don’t compete physically, but with robots, that are created through many strenuous hours of time and commitment over their six week build period. Every year there is a different game, those of which present many new challenges for all of the teams to overcome. FIRST stands “For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology”. It’s founding fathers, Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers, wished to create an organization that would open students eyes to the field of engineering. They wanted to create an environment filled with gracious professionalism and coopertition, which they have fulfilled tenfold. FIRST is an organization that everybody and anybody can be a part of. The people of FIRST have taken their experiences with them for the rest of their lives, no matter what field that they pursued.