About FIRST

The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. The program is a life-changing, career-molding experience and is a lot of fun. In 2004 the competition reached more than 20,000 students on over 900 teams in 27 competitions. In 2006 there will be over 28,000 high school students participating on teams from Canada, Brazil, Great Britain, Mexico, and almost every U.S. state including Puerto Rico. The competitions are high-tech spectator sporting events, the result of lots of focused brainstorming, real-world teamwork, dedicated mentoring, project timelines, and deadlines.

Colleges, universities, corporations, businesses, and individuals provide scholarships to our participants. Involved engineers experience again many of the reasons they chose engineering as a profession, and the companies they work for contribute to the community while they prepare and create their future workforce. The competition shows students that the technological fields hold many opportunities and that the basic concepts of science, math, engineering, and invention are exciting and interesting.

For more information, please go to www.usfirst.org