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About FIRST

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For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology

FIRST is an organization founded by the Segway inventor Dean Kamen and MIT Professor Woodie Flowers in 1989 to encourage students to pursue a future in engineering and technology fields.

FIRST's philosophy of collaboration and teamwork among engineers, teachers, and mentors with their students and encourages those students to get hands one experience with various robotics programs as well as develop a genuine interest in engineering and science fields that the world desperately needs. FIRST holds a variety of robotics competitions that simulate sports, however FIRST as an origination greatly pushes for competing teams to remain friendly, helping each other out when necessary, and never promoting winning over leaning and fun. This is known as Gracious Professionalism; a term coined by co-founder Woodie Flowers that supports respect towards one's competitors and integrity in one's actions. FIRST is all about fun and learning, where they encourage everyone to get involved somehow.

FIRST holds four different types of Robotics competitions: