The #1 Global Robotics Community

Through challenges designed to ignite curiosity and encourage exploration, FIRST offers team based robotics programs for students aged 4-18, which they can join at any level.

FIRST is the world’s leading youth-serving nonprofit advancing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), helping students build the skills they’ll need for the future

FIRST believes STEM is for everyone. STEM engagement builds confidence in young people and opens doors to all kinds of career opportunities. At FIRST, we are determined to bring our programs to the students who can benefit from them the most. We’re constantly developing new strategies to create greater, more equitable access and to help every child succeed.

  • Challenge Competition

    Head to Head

    Two teams face off on competing boards. 2:30 goes up on the clock and the ref blows the whistle. Teams start their robots on first program and await its return to switch attachments and board pieces. Robots transverse the boards completing missions as they run program after program. The timer sounds, robots are stopped, points are tallied. Teams shake hands and new friends are made as the learning continues.

  • Innovation Project

    Education

    Teams learn the importance of a real world issue and research how they progress it. For Super Powered challenge young innovators researched electrical systems. How does power transfer from water turbines to electrical grids to the energy conserving appliances in homes? What can these future engineers build in the future to make this more efficient, safe, environmental? They will show you the future in their presentation.

  • Championship

    Championship

    The Dream

    Teams from around the world come together in the spirit of competition, learning, and friendship to compete in the First Championship. Dreamers who have strived for ingenious ingenuity show their skills as their compete for the ultimate trophy. More then that, teams showcase their technological creations for the world to see announcing themselves as the proud new future to look forward to,