THE 2024 FIRST GLOBAL CHALLENGE
2024 THEME: SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
Sustainable food production is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. Our global food system is a complex and interconnected web that is sensitive to many factors. In pioneering solutions, it is crucial to focus on the intricate and interdependent relationship between water, energy, and food, and the need to carefully manage and balance these global resources to support a sustainable food system.
For the eighth edition of the FIRST Global Challenge, teams united at the Panathenaic Olympic Stadium and the Peace and Friendship Stadium to compete under this theme in the game titled “Feeding the Future.” The game challenged FIRST Global teams to learn about and address the obstacles and opportunities to provide the global population with equitable, safe, nutritious, and environmentally responsible food.
192 COUNTRIES
represented by 193 teams, including a team of refugees.
2,080+ STUDENTS
directly impacted, with more involved back home.
41% FEMALE PARTICIPATION
including 52 female-majority or all-girl teams.
78+ SOLUTIONS
addressing food sustainability.
2024 PLAYLISTS
THE CHALLENGE
TEAM PROFILES
FEATURE VIDEOS
2024 GAME: FEEDING THE FUTURE
In the Feeding the Future robotics game, two three-team regional alliances work Independently to conserve water and energy and produce food. All six teams then work together as a global alliance to secure food and global resources to create a sustainable food system and provide the world with equitable, safe, nutritious, and environmentally responsible food.
Each regional alliance transfers water and energy to the robots via the human players. Robots then conserve water and energy. Once a nexus goal has been successfully loaded with one water and one energy, a food is produced and released into play. All teams work together as a global alliance to collect the produced food and secure it in the food warehouse.
Feeding the Future Game Manuals
ENGLISH FRANÇAIS ESPAÑOL PORTUGUÊS
Feeding the Future Playing Field Drawings
Feeding the Future Playing Field CAD Model
Feeding the Future Questions & Answers
STEP File“Feeding the Future aims to tackle one of the defining issues of our time: food sustainability. Through this challenge, we’re teaching students that the future is in their control — they can work together to build the equitable, sustainable, nutritious food system that will feed the world.”
—Dean Kamen
2024 NATIONAL TEAMS
Teams not visible on the map: American Samoa; Aruba; Cayman Islands; Cook Islands; Hong Kong, China; Hope (Refugees); Kiribati; Maldives; Marshall Islands; San Marino; Tonga.
“FIRST Global has genuinely fueled my interest in STEM and my passion for engineering. It has made me more of a problem solver… and has made me see the bigger picture — that each nation’s challenges related to food, water, energy and sustainability aren’t their own. They are all of ours, and we must work together to actively find solutions. It also made me feel like we do indeed have the power to solve the world’s problems, we just need the will and determination to do so.”
—Female participant, Team Zambia 2024
“This was the best experience of my life, and I really hope that other young people can have this opportunity to participate.”
—Female participant, Team Panama 2024
“Robotics is more than just a research field or a geek club in schools, it is a mental and physical sport that not only makes you smarter, but it also creates generations of experts in every field that can only make tomorrow a better and more enjoyable place.”
—Male participant, Team Algeria 2024
“Why should robotics be recognized as a sport? Because every child deserves to be good at a sport.”
—Female participant, Team Great Britain 2024
IN THE NEWS
2024 AWARDS
2024 RANKINGS
2024 IMPACT REPORT
This year we united in the home of the Olympics – Athens, Greece – for the ultimate sport of robotics, representing the greatest number of FIRST Global teams to date — 193. For full insights into this amazing year, including statistics and stories, view our 2024 Impact Report.
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