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-moulding experience—and a lot of fun. In
2007, the competition will reach over 30,000 high-school-aged young people on
over 1,300 teams in 37 regional events. Our teams came from Brazil, Canada,
Ecuador, Israel, Mexico, the U.K., and almost every U.S. state. 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.”