[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] With the support of Girls in Tech Chile, Team Chile is composed of 10 members from every Chilean FIRST Robotics Competition team that showed high levels of commitment and passion. All of our members come from three different parts of Chile: Santiago, Valparaíso and...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Adeeb Albaruni (Team Member) I'm 18 years old, I will enter university next year. I really have a passion about Technology and Robots. I am in love with writing, Reading, Swimming, Volunteering, singing and playing oud. I participate in this competition to fulfill my passion...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Team Lesotho is composed of 6 students from different parts of the country. The students have mutual goals which is to inspire the use of robots in Lesotho. They believe that the use of robots could have a positive impact on their academic work...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] We feel very fortunate to have this opportunity and thank FIRST Global for it. Our true mission is to teach the students many skills such as communication, machinery, programming, safety, marketing, engineering, and social skills that will help them in the future. We must...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Team Europe represented by Catalonia is a FIRST Global Team formed by five teenagers. We are from Girona, a city of Catalonia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Pyrenees. Even though this is our first time competing in the FIRST Global Challenge, we have been...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Team USA is comprised of eleven high-school students from Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington D.C. The members of the team are part of FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC) team 9794, Wizards.exe. At the 2017-2018 FTC World Championship in Detroit, the team was honored to...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Team Burundi is composed of students coming from different high schools in Bujumbura and from different tribal backgrounds in Burundi. They have no background in robotics, but their dreams and hopes remain the root of motivation of standing up for this tremendous program of FIRST...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] This team is formed from the beautiful land of Botswana whose climatic conditions are described as semi-arid, it stretches from the Kalahari desert southwest going all the way to the Okavango Delta (The world’s largest inland delta). Where wildlife is still found in its natural habitat...
The University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment (FSTE) is partnering up with For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Global Higher Education Network to facilitate the First Global Robotics Competitionorganised for high school students around the world. FIRST...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Aida Ibrahima Abdou: Team Captain Aida is 16 years old and student in Premiere C (2nd year of High School) at Lycée Mariama of Niamey. She likes Mathematics, Life & Earth Sciences and Philosophy. She already had the chance to participate last year to the...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Robotics Team Suriname taking part in the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge in Mexico City consists of 3 students, Seth Tjokrodimedjo (18), Joel Naarendorp (17) and Lesley Uiterloo (18). All three team members happen to be pursuing technical vocational education at the Nature Technical Institute...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Lalaniaina Sahondra RAFIDISON, 15. I'm in Première S at the Lycée Saint François Xavier, Antanimena. We are all science-minded in my family. I am passionate about cultures and discoveries. I've had the chance to visit 3 continents so far. I'm the youngest and the only...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] The Angolan FIRST Global team is comprised of four students who live in Luanda: Aderito Francisco Quiombo, Jacinto Augusto, Joel Zeca, and Abigail Cacombe. The team was formed in 2017 after our mentor took part in the Global Grand Challenge summit and was inspired to help to...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Team LoGibots of Cameroon is made up of five members. They attend the same school, the Tassah Academy, and all belong to STEM clubs. They are all passionate about technology and hope to use their skills to change the narrative for their country. Kuate Kamga...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Aiperi Chegebaeva, Team Captain I am a fourth year student at Bilimkana School in Talas, Kyrgyzstan. I would like to be a robot-creating engineer when I grow up. I have been interested in robotics from early childhood. My first inspiration came with the cartoon about...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] We are a team of 3 girls ages 15 - 18 years from the Mozilla club of HackathonGirls Banjul with a mentor, Miss Juma Baldeh to represent Africa at the FIRST Global 2018 robotics competition in Mexico. We started learning coding a year ago at...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] We are a team of regular teenagers, gathered by one common thing - robotics. We like engineering, programming, and also like solving nonstandard complex problems, like designing a robot for performing certain tasks. Every member of our team has his own duties and plays...
The Afghan robotic girls team returned home after wrapping up a successful tour in Canada and the US. “We participated in the competition in New Mexico where we won first position and won a gold medal, in Turkey we also came first,” said Leda Azizi, head...
Three Bhutanese will represent the country at the Global Robotic Olympic this year at Arena Ciudad de México, Mexico City. Fabrication laboratory (FabLab) Bhutan has been inviting entries from young enthusiasts to represent the country at the competition that FIRST Global, a global non-governmental organisation holds...
There was no magic involved when the Wizards.exe [Team USA 2018] came home from Detroit with the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship Inspire Award in hand, along with their robot, which took 10th out of 6,000 teams from around the globe. Eleven Montgomery County teenagers have...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] We are from different regions of Armenia, but there is one thing that unites us: our drive to survive among the developed world and aim to improve ourselves and our surroundings. Our mountain ranges gave us the unique direction to think and to create,...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Moldova, like any other country in the world, needs innovation. It needs to take advantage of technology in order to succeed. Our FGC team has 5 members, youth from different schools, that are united by a single vision -- to make the world a...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] The members of Team Turkmenistan are 6 students. All of them study in capital city of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat City. The technical mentor of the team is Atamyrat Shahanov. He has STEM teaching experience for 7 years. He had attended many International STEM related competitions...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] We are an independent team of robotics enthusiasts dedicated to the implementation of STEM activities and robotics competitions in Venezuela. We are the only Venezuelan-based robotics team active in international competitions. We are pioneers of the STEM field in Venezuela. Our ultimate goal is to educate...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Our team is comprised of teenagers from different high schools in the provice of Matanzas, Cuba. We were brought by a member of Canada’s Team Kinetic Knights, Megan Quade who introduced us to this wonderful and exciting world of robotics. This year is gonna be...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Change the world. That is something that many of us dream of: doing something that leaves an impact, a mark that, however small, is worthy of being remembered. The challenges we face every day are no secret: from water pollution, cyber-security problems to the...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] CEL robotics Makers Coming from Centro Educativos Los Laureles School, Asuncion-Paraguay, Team Paraguay is composed of 7 members; 5 talented Students and 2 professional teachers whose passions are directly building robots to make opportunities around our Paraguay community. Youth Talented students: • Alejandro Molinas: Team Captain whose...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Hello! We are team Iran and we are glad to be participating in FIRST Global and to be the little ambassadors of real Iran and real people. We are a team of five diverse members coming together sharing our passion for STEM. Iran…a country of...
As the day for the First Global Challenge nears, Science Technology Engineer and Mathematics (STEM) Guyana is busy working to build a robot that will “wow” judges at this year’s competition in Mexico. Though the final team of six has not yet been selected, a group...
Translated from Albanian. Some young Albanians passionate about engineering, will again represent Albania in the "Robotic Olympics", which will this time be held in Mexico. Albania's participation is facilitated by FIRST, a non-for-profit child-raising organization in the field of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), and offers four...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] In 2017, all members of Team Sri Lanka were selected from Elizabeth Moir School. Having had an absolutely amazing experience, the school was keen to promote STEM and FIRST Global across the island and the call was answered by St John’s College Jaffna in...
DETROIT - - Through it all, a group of Afghan girls with a passion to build mechanical machines controlled by high-tech robots never let the countless obstacles in their way stop them from pursuing their dreams. First, they came from a culture in Afghanistan where women in...
Young students from around the world will arrive in Mexico City this August to participate in a competition that taps into robotics to tackle global challenges. The inaugural FIRST Global Challenge in 2017 welcomed high-school students from 157 nations; and this year’s event is expected to be...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] The Moroccan team is delighted to participate for the first time in the FIRST Global Challenge. Our team consists of 16-year-old high school students: four girls (Chaima, Imane, Intissar and Nour Elhouda) and 1 boy (Amine), They are full of motivation and enthusiasm and...
We Need You! Help FIRST Global Foster Peace and Improve the Standard of Living Around the World! For Immediate Release May 2, 2018 Alexandria, VA -- The second annual FIRST Global Challenge -- an Olympic-style robotic competition which attracted delegations of high school-aged innovators from 157 nations in 2017...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Hello! Or as we say it where we come from, Marhaba! Syria, our home country, a beautiful place that we love, the place where we were born, where we live, and where we met. Hafez (17), Sidra (17), Another Hafez (16), and Obai (16), thats us! We’re...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Pan Ingyin Pan Ingyin is the 1st year student at the University of Information Technology, Yangon. She would like to become the Artificial Intelligence scientist when she grows up. She has been very interested in robotics in hope to support for convenience of daily human...
The mission of the FIRST Global Challenge is to inspire science and technology leadership and innovation in young people from all nations in order to enhance understanding, instill the importance of cooperation, address the world’s most pressing issues, and improve quality of life for all. This...
Pune: A five-member team of Class XII students from the city have been selected to participate in the FIRST Global Robotics Olympics in Mexico later this year. The competition, which has students of various age-groups competing to prove their skills in robotics, came into limelight last...
Translated from Spanish. Cintia, with her facilitator Marcos Lugo, will travel regularly to the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires to receive training in the Educabot space. The objective of the meetings of the Argentine team is that, after getting acquainted, they are integrated into a joint work...
The Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has praised the efforts of Team Nigeria to the FIRST Global Robotic Olympics in Washington DC, US in 2017 for their outstanding performance at the challenge. He made the commendation while receiving the six-member team, their project director, mentor and...
Translated from Spanish. They will have the opportunity to represent the Missions Robotics School in the FIRST Global. The team thanked the president of the House of Representatives, Carlos Rovira and the national deputy Flavia Morales. Also to EducaBot and its team "for making us part...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] We are a Team of highly motivated, young teenagers who hope to make an impact on the world via FIRST Global. Rayushka is a student of St. Mary's Junior College, and has participated in the 2017-18 FTC Season. She manages the social media and community...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] (from left to right) Dzanga Matodzi is a grade 9 learner at Hoerskool Uitsig. Her most important aspiration in life is to be happy by seeing the lives of individuals improving due to her contribution in robotics. She would like to use this opportunity to...
The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has praised the effort of Team Nigeria to the First Global Robotic Olympics in Washington DC, U.S., in 2017 for its outstanding performance at the challenge. He made the commendation while receiving the six-member team, their project director, mentor and sponsors...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] We are Team Albania. We were established last year and successfully represented Albania in the FIRST Global Challenge. We are a group of hardworking STEM enthusiasts, that range from 14-18 years old and come from a variety of schools across Albania. Meet this year’s team: Julianna...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Team Vikings How did we meet? It all started in 2011 when Plan Ceibal distributed robotics kits to all educational centers and provided training to all teachers in the country. From that year onward the robotics teachers wanted to create a robotics workshop at the Higher Technical...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Team Iceland for the FIRST Global Challenge consists of three members, Dýrleif Birna Sveinsdóttir, Kormákur Atli Unnþórsson and Flosi Torfason. This summer they'll be preparing for the challenge as they build a robot to take on Mexico in August. Energy Situation When it comes to energy,...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Josef Gonzalez- Builder, Driver Josef is a Lower 6 (11th grade) student at Presentation College Chaguanas. Josef embodies the spirit of a holistic education and is a pinnacle of all-roundedness that many younger students aspire to. Josef is an involved member of the school’s robotics...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Hello, we are Team Bosnia and Herzegovina from Mostar, our Highschool is ''Druga gimnazija Mostar'' and our Team is part of the Center for Education, Robotics, Innovation and technology. In our team there are seven members with our mentor and professor Anes Hadžiomerović. What...
A group of six girls left their families in Afghanistan and travelled for the first time to Canada in January with a dream and a hope. They were determined to build the best robot they could and compete in a variety of robotic competitions including the...
Even though he first got to interact with his first computer when he joined secondary school in 2013, Lewis Wanyeki, 19, was fascinated with technology. He constantly fiddled with his mother’s mobile phone, curious about how it operated. “I dismantled several of my mother’s mobile phones...
Translated from French. Winners at an international competition in Washington, young Malians passionate about robotics are putting their talents to work in a new, brand-new center. Student at the National School of Engineering, Abdoulaziz experiments with electronic fragments in his room ...
Six students from Wesley Girls Senior High School will represent Ghana at the FIRST Global international robotics challenge to be held in Mexico City in August. This was announced by STEMbees, a non-profit organisation in Ghana that seeks to empower Ghanaian girls in STEM(Science, engineering, technology...
In a statement, First Global’s partner, Impact Hub Harare director, Tadzoka Pswarayi, said the money was needed to cover costs of their robot kit, the team’s travel to the competition, training, food and lodging and uniforms among other requirements. “The chance to participate in this competition...
“The number of women in our country that do STEM is very little. We as young girls, as the next generation, we need to change that… I believe that we can change the world.”...
The Afghan Dreamers, an all-teenage-girl robotics team from Afghanistan, made international headlines last year after twice being denied visas to visit the U.S. for the 2017 FIRST Global Challenge, a robotics competition involving more than 2,500 kids from 157 countries. They eventually got permission to...
Burmese nerds hope to attract more talent with the promise of winning gold. WITH recurrent power cuts, limited wifi and poor infrastructures, Myanmar is often regarded as a rather weak country when it comes to technological prowess. Most people struggle installing basic apps on their smartphones,...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] What brought this team together was our shared passion for robots and technology, although that is not the only thing that defines us. We are diverse in culture, gender and age, all coming together to express our love for technology, build robots and most...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] We are five passionate high school students, aged 16 years old, from Sfax supported and coached by two outstanding mentors, Mrs. Faten and Mr. Rabeh, dreaming of a powerful future generation and representing Tunisia in the 2018 FIRST Global Challenge. We are a unique team...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] FIRST GLOBAL TEAM ETHIOPIA is a non-profit organization established to deliver the concept of STEM (Science Technology, Engineering and Maths) and the vision of FIRST GLOBAL to the Ethiopian young generation through robotics game which includes high-school students aged 14 up to 18 nationwide. [vc_video...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] We are Team Benin. Representing our country at the FIRST Global competition is an exciting experience for us. We are so excited to discover how to put robot parts together and to discover how robots work. We are inspired to collaborate with other teams...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Welcome to Saint Kitts and Nevis, two islands but ONE Federation. Here we are, once again in the FIRST Global Robotics Competition. Our hardworking and adamant team has so much to offer. We share the same interests but achieve it through different roles. We are...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Team R2045 (abbreviation for Rendezvous 2045) is the robotics team of Indonesia represented by Madrasah International TechnoNatura. The team comprises of creative and ambitious students with technical, knowledge, practical approach and management skills. Our team members take part in various technical events of other...
While at Harvard, she launched and led the first Zambian robotic team at the FIRST Global, which organises a yearly international robotics challenge to ignite a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). She first heard about the Pan-African Robotics Challenge while channel surfing in...
Sara Narimene Boukais discovered last summer that she can change the world. As a member of Algeria’s first-ever robotics team, the 18-year-old spent months designing a machine that can clean polluted water—or, at least, clear a replica of a river littered with colored plastic balls. Sara had...
One hundred sixty three teams from 157 countries competed in the First Global Challenge 2017 Robotic Competition held in Washington D.C. from 16 to 18 July, with the Myanmar team finishing sixth in the competition. Six Myanmar students, Maung Wai Yar Aung from Yangon Technological...
Alejandra is a 17-year-old teenager with a great passion for learning. Originally from Acahualinca, one of the communities with highest social risk in Managua. The everydayness of her life experienced a complete turnaround when she was given the opportunity to apply for a scholarship for...
The inadugural zambian robotics team entered FIRST Global, a competition that pits 163 national teams against each other. Last year's theme was clean water. Each group is sent a basic kit and guide, and then it's up to them to create and program the machine. -->...
In a tumultuous year, a group of teenage girls from Afghanistan became the unexpected heroes of an underdog story that captivated the entire world. It all began in June, when the all-female team of high schoolers was denied US visa necessary for their participation in July’s...
Dean Kamen started his career as a medical inventor on accident. When he was young, Kamen's older brother, an MD Ph.D. candidate, was working in pediatric oncology. "He’d come home on weekends, frustrated," Kamen said on stage at the Forbes Under 30 Summit. "You have a two-pound baby you’re...
Afghanistan's Girl Robotics Team just won the Entrepreneur Challenge at Europe's largest robotics festival, the Robotex festival in Tallinn, Estonia. At Robotex, the team faced off against 3700 other competitors and 1600 robots in a series of competitions, including robot basketball games, races, and mazes. The...
Zartaj Waseem served as a fundamental part of the Global STEM Corps (GSC) Advisory Team to Team Tanzania during the 2017 FIRST Global Challenge (FGC2017) season and was also one of the many members of the judging panel during the competition. Her vast experience with...
It has been a year of travel difficulties, project setbacks and family heartbreak, but a girls’ robotics team from Afghanistan has made a comeback. The group of teenagers, who attracted international attention last summer when they were briefly denied visas to the United States to take...
COLONIA, Yap (Habele) — Students on Micronesia’s famously traditional island of stone money have begun to design and assemble hi-tech programmable robots. Robotics clubs at five high schools in Yap received VEX Classroom and Competition kits earlier this month, kicking off expansion of the popular Yap...
The Tuxedo Pandas -- a high school robotics team from the United States led by Isabelle and Franky Marchand -- not only helped out during the 2017 FIRST Global Challenge in Washington, D.C. but they also advised not one, but two FIRST Global teams through...
Translated from Spanish. The event promotes scientific and technological knowledge among youth from more than 150 countries, with the goal to build a better world CITY OF PUEBLA, Mexico, Nov. 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Grupo Salinas, a group of dynamic, fast-growing and technologically advanced companies, deeply...
Gryphons.exe is a high school robotics team in the United States that not only volunteered at the 2017 FIRST Global Challenge, but also went out of their way to help Team Iran through the Global STEM Corps. Team Iran’s robot kit - a box containing...
"I have always loved people from other cultures and nations so it was an easy jump to FIRST Global. When I heard about the program, I knew that I wanted to be a part of it in whatever way I could. It was 2006 when it...
"Volunteering for FIRST events means so many things to me. I started by volunteering to be a robot judge at a FIRST Lego League (FLL) tournament. It was encouraging to see kids so excited to show what their robots could do, even if pieces fell off...
South Australian students Michael Brady, Bowen Hawkey, Samuel Moloney, Luke Voigt and Nathan Axford represented Team Oceania and competed against students from more than 160 nations to win the award. The Gold Einstein Award acknowledged the team for having the best robot and the best game...
Three MCAST students who are studying software development and multimedia software development, have built a robot and competed in the Global Challenge Robot Olympics in Washington. One of the students is Andrea Abela who is a current student worker at MITA. We talked to him...
The Afghan girls robotics team were warmly welcomed in an international event in Amsterdam in the Netherlands on Thursday. Researchers, scientists and inventors from 100 countries attended the two-day event. The robotics team displayed their robot at the event. Fatima Qaderyan, member of the robotics team, made an...
The group of students from the Beau Vallon secondary school known as Team Seychelles who took part in the First Global Challenge Robotic Competition held last month in Washington, USA, have been honoured. This was through a reception held on Friday evening at the Savoy Resort...
Translated from Indonesian. Technological developments helped bring the achievements of Indonesia's young generation. One of them is shown through Wo-Wi, an innovative robot made by Madrasah Aliyah (MA) students Technonatura, Depok, West Java. Unmitigated, this robot won the second winner in the International First Global Challenge Olympic...
Translated from French. The role of Governor General has suddenly become of interest to young people at the Séminaire de Sherbrooke. The winners of the gold medal at the most recent First Global competition, held in Washington last July, had the opportunity to meet astronaut Julie...
Last July, I had the honor to volunteer at the FIRST Global Challenge, which was held at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. It was simply wonderful to see the smiles on the faces of the youth I worked with, especially knowing I helped contribute...
Translated from Spanish. For the first time, people of all ages who have a hobby of robotics, can be part of the international tournament Robot Games Challenge Pacific. The activity organized by the club Robota of the Polytechnic School of the Coast (Espol) will be held...
Translated from Spanish. A Chilean girl of only 15 years gained an internship in New Zealand to learn programming in Code Avengers, one of the main companies of the tech industry. Her name is Macarena Abarca and her initiative is to bring robotics to deaf people. According...
“Everybody here is working together, loaning each other batteries, tools, helping each other fix programming issues to lift each other up,” Participant, First Global Challenge 2017. Imagine a world that is not divided by politics, hatred and war…. a world where every nation helps its neighbors,...
Translated from Burmese. Robotic technology in the world in many developed countries has been widely used for many years, but in a developing country like Burma, they are just getting started to study opportunities. This technology to study the current situation in Burma, Regarding the outlook,...
Seven teenagers from Collyer’s Sixth Form College travelled to Washington DC in the summer to represent the United Kingdom at FIRST Global, an international robotics Olympiad. In May, the Collyer’s Robotics team made county headlines by coming third in the UK Student Robotics competition – the...
HIS Royal Highness Prince (Dr) Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah ibni His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office and Pro-Chancellor of Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB), yesterday officiated at UTB’s 4th Convocation Festival 2017. Upon arrival at...
Three ICT students at the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (Mcast) took part in the first Global Robotics Challenge which was held in Washington DC, United States. The Maltese team, composed of Patrick Brejza, Clive Tonna and Andrea Abela, performed very well in the...
Electrical innovator Amos Vandy and Computer Programmer Daniel McWilliams have received a $1,000 USD from Bishop Abu of the Flaming Evangelical Ministries (FEM) to help them with their scholarship to study abroad. The two are part of a team that represented Sierra Leone at the...
The FIRST Global Challenge is a major international robotics event that took place in Washington DC in last month. The competition brings together students between the ages of 15 to 18 years to increase their knowledge of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Teams from about...
“You are the first generation in human history that can end extreme poverty in the world. And from what I saw of these robots, I know you can do it.” — President World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, at the #FGC2017 Award and Closing Ceremony. Amajor international...
Translated from Spanish. Mexico was represented by a team made up of students from the Universidad Panamericana (UP), Jorge Ochoa, Guillermo Campos, Antonio Dávila, Alonso García, Eduardo Martínez, Héctor Carrillo, Gerardo Ascencio, and the Preparatory Institute of the Technological Institute of Monterrey Superior Studies (ITESM), San...
A group of South Australian high school students have been crowned the world's best robot builders at an event dubbed the "robotic Olympics" in the United States. The inaugural FIRST Global competition invited nearly 1,000 high school students from 157 different countries to battle it out...
Cambodian youth from two high schools in Siem Reap province are among 157 national teams participating in this year’s debut FIRST Global Challenge, an annual international robotics competition taking place in Washington, DC from July 16 to 18. The competition is aimed at encouraging young...
BASRA – A six-strong Iraqi team has returned home to Basra after rubbing shoulders with students from nearly 160 other nations at a robotics contest in Washington, D.C. After six years of competition, this year's FIRST Global Challenge event held in July over three days was...
PARAMARIBO - The Suriname Robotics Team, consisting of Shayant (18), Ayan(16) and Ivana (16), was received in audience by the Vice President of the Republic of Suriname H.E. Mr. Ashwin Adhin on August 17, 2017. The meeting identified a greater incorporation of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics --...
Translated from Icelandic. The president welcomes representatives of Iceland in the FIRST Global Robotics Competition. It was held in Washington in the US in July. Iceland's team came to Berlín with teachers in programming for robots and other escorts. The robot itself helped and showed the...
Translated from French. They did not obtain the supreme coronation but in the immediate, the money sufficed for their happiness. Mathis and Quentin Giton and Antoine Poirrier, the son of Gaillon and Aubevoye's teachers, were not unworthy at the recent Robotics Olympics held in the United...
Zimbabwean robotics team was ranked at 56 out 163 nations at the annual robotics competition that took place in Washington DC, United States from the 16th to the 18th this month.. The robotics team participants are between the ages of 15 to 18 drawn from various...
I HAD an opportunity to meet up with the young team that represented Zambia in the FIRST Global robotics competition help in Washington DC, a team of seven students and one mentor who came together to build EPOH, a robots name which means hope spelled...
Translated from French. Three days after their return from the United States, where they won a gold medal (for the entire team) and another silver medal (for the 7th), these high school students aged 15 to 18 were accompanied by their Sponsors of the First Skills...
Translated from French. Again, Tunisia has shone with its young skills in an international competition. Seven young Tunisian high school students proudly honored the national colors by winning gold and silver at the Global Robotics Challenge organized by FIRST Global from 16-18 July in Washington, DC....
It was supposed to be Africa’s century, then the robots arrived. The dawning of the fourth industrial revolution offered African countries the opportunity to take advantage of technological gains, leapfrogging their developed counterparts. As China did at the end of the last century, Africa could have...
Washington, D.C. – In its first-ever appearance at the FIRST Global Robotics Competition, a group of three students from the federation, accompanied by Dr. Ricardo Neil, placed 36th out of 163 nations in a three-day competition from July 14-17. Jermelia Henry, Zhavier Shaw and Jervik Lapsley...
The Seychelles National Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation(NISTI) won the bronze medal for outstanding supporting organisation at a global robotics challenge in Washington, D.C, earlier this month. The Al-Khawarizmi Award from the Iranian Research Organisation for Science and Technology was given to organisations who are...
Some Nigerian teenagers are putting the country in good view with their participation in the first robotics Olympics held in Washington D.C in the United States. This challenge happens to be the first global robotic Olympic to be held. The Nigerian teenagers that represented the nation...
Translated from French. The first "Al-Khwarizmi Award", awarded to the team that contributed most to the progress of the competition, and the second "Albert Einstein Award for Outstanding Supporter", awarded to the teams that produced the most powerful robots, were both awarded to the Tunisian team. This...
In room 300 on the fourth floor of Leone Building on Wilberforce Street, sits the future of Sierra Leone robotic engineering. The room is full of teenagers and young people glued to computer monitors fiddling with their keyboards with exhilarating concentration. Amongst these geeks, is the...
A team of seven students, who represented Nigeria in the maiden edition of the FIRST Global Robotics Olympiad (GRO) in Washington DC, U.S, have been commended for their impressive performance. The team came third out of 41 African countries that participated in the competition and ranked...
A team of seven students, who represented Nigeria in the maiden edition of the FIRST Global Robotics Olympiad (GRO) in Washington DC, U.S. have been commended for their impressive performance. The team came third out of 41 African countries that participated in the competition and ranked...
YANGON — A team of Myanmar engineering students who landed a top 10 ranking at the world’s first international robotics competition hope their achievement will inspire young people to practise science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in order to improve the country. The team finished six...
Translated from Luxembourgish. 164 countries joined this robot competition together, and this year Luxembourg also represented a first time. We have accompanied the team! --> See the Video ...
BEAVERCREEK — Seven High School students from Honduras participated in the FIRST Global Robotics Competition in Washington, D.C., with the help of Dayton-based nonprofit Shoulder to Shoulder. Shoulder to Shoulder’s 27-year mission has been to help bring sustainable health, nutrition and education services to the people of...
High school student Chhoeut Chanthy had never before seen a robot, let alone built one that operated on code she had written. But that all changed a few months ago when Ms Chanthy and five classmates in Siem Reap province became the first Cambodian team to...
THE Bits ‘N’ Bytes Company yesterday hosted an appreciation ceremony for sponsors of Team Brunei who attended the inaugural First Global Challenge 2017 which was held in July in Washington DC, the United States of America. The event took place yesterday at Lecture Hall 2...
As the programmer for his robotics team, Nathan is responsible for making sure the robot's code is top-notch. Looking at the enthusiasm and excellence he brings to his work, it may be surprising to hear that Nathan hasn't always been recognized as the smart and...
Translated from Spanish. Relatives of the young URBE students participating in the First 2017 Robotics World Cup in Washington DC gathered in the URBE videoconference room to support their children in full competition through a video call. This is the first time that two Engineering students from...
Three students from Yap State proudly represented the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) at an international high school robotics competition this July in Washington DC. Natasha Loochaz, John Steven Gilinug, and Francis Yarofalyango, comprised Team Micronesia, and joined students from over 150 other nations at the...
The Algerian robotics team looked worried as they huddled around their boxy machine. It was the opening day of the First Global international robotics challenge — which brought youth from 160 countries to Washington, D.C. in July to compete and test their mechanical engineering skills — and the robot...
Translated from Spanish. President Evo Morales today congratulated the young people who qualified for the final round of the First Global Challenge, the most important global event in the field of robotics. "Out of 165 countries, 15 and 16-year-old Bolivians qualified for the #Robotica World Cup final....
Translated from Spanish. With a robot to take care of water quality, young sucrenses Fabián Malpartida, Alejandro Núñez, Luis Fernández and Susan Terán set a record for Bolivia in the First Global Challenge, which took place in the USA. The national team was fifth in South...
Girls in Tech Chile is a foundation since 2014 that promotes female participation in science and technology, forming part of a US NGO of the same name present in 60 countries. From the experience, the Ingeniosas program was created to promote vocations of women of school...
Translated from Romanian. More than 150 teams from all over the world participate in the Olympics. At the most important robotics competition in the world, about 1,000 children are enrolled. The Romanian team consists of: Alexandru Florescu, Daha Andrei, Preda Andrei, Rares Badici, Oliver Szavuj, Alexandra Pacuraru,...
Representing India at the FIRST Global Challenge, an Olympics-style robotics competition held in the US from July 16-18, a team of seven students from Mumbai designed a robot called Neutrino that can separate pollutants from contaminated water. Of the 100 applications that came in, this 7-member...
One team with one month and one robotics kit proudly represented Bermuda at the FIRST Global 2017 Robotics competition last week. Despite the relatively short time to prepare, they beat the US, Canada, Russia and Britain to finish 59th out of 163 and were the top...
Translated from Russian. As we reported earlier, last week in Washington, the world's Olympic Games in robotics FIRST Global Challenge took place. As a result of the competition, a team of Ukrainian schoolchildren consisting of Igor Zhukovsky, Inga Manzhulenko, Mikhail Koreshkov and mentor Nadezhda Vladykina entered...
Translated from Romanian. The students will arrive in Washington on Friday, where they will compete with over 160 teams. Unfortunately, Romania has no sponsor, so the parents of these young people are paying thousands of euros for us to represent our country. Alexandra Pacuraru, Olympic student: "The...
This past week, I, along with eight other members of STEM Guyana’s robotics team, had the pleasure of participating in the FIRST Global Challenge 2017. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded in the US in 1989 to inspire young people’s...
Translated from French. With seven young high school students between the ages of 15 and 18, the First Skills Club has just won two gold and silver medals at the 2018 Global Robotics Challenge, held July 16-18 in Washington-USA . Representing the Tunisian national team in the...
Translated from Spanish. Many battles had to be won for two days in order to reach this place and the excitement overflows because they defended the colors of Bolivia in an event where 163 countries in total sought to demonstrate the best they have in the...
Translated from Spanish. Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua participated in the robot olympics promoted by First Global, an initiative to motivate youth to use and enjoy science and technology. Youth from 157 countries participated in the First Global Challenge, the world's first robotic olympic, in Washington DC, USA. The...
The students Andrea Terán, Luis Fernando Orta and Luis Gerardo Ramos of PrepaTec of San Luis Potosí were winners when they obtained the bronze in the First Global First Challenge Robotics Olympic Games, held in Washington, USA. "It has been an honor to get this recognition,...
Translated from Spanish. A few months ago, I saw a beautiful movie, "Spare Parts" (2015, "The Robot Life"). The story revolves around a high school teacher who, tempted by a large technology company, receives a juicy job offer. Four Hispanic students in irregular migration situation appear,...
Translated from French. Washington has just hosted the "First Global Challenge 2017", a competition for robotics and home automation. They were 7 young Malians who took part in this event. Participants from 125 countries took the silver medal in engineering design! After three months of training, high...
Translated from French. A first. Madagascar is indeed present at the FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics competition. The Malagasy team of six students aged between 16 and 19 years, led by Sahaza Ramarosandy arrived in the land of Uncle Sam on Friday to participate in...
THREE pupils of Presentation College, Chaguanas, placed 16th out of a field of 163 at the inaugural FIRST Global International High School Robotics Challenge in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. The team comprised of Form Five pupils Avidesh Marajh (team representative and programmer), Fahad Hosein (team captain...
Translated from Serbian. The Team of Europe is the winner of the first Robotic Olympics, held in Washington, organized by First Global Program. Vice-championship was won by a team of high school students from Poland, while the third was a team from Armenia. Among the representatives of the...
Translated from Spanish. Brilliant young high school students in 153 countries came to Washington, DC, with their gleaming newly assembled robots and after long trips, to star in the most incredible, fantastic and wonderful competition of its kind that takes place worldwide. For three days from Sunday...
Translated from French. Motivation and loyalty, Seven young high-school students from Sfax and the First Skills Club took the plane to the United States to defend the Tunisian flag at the Global Robotics Challenge organized by FIRST Global from 16 to 18 July in Washington Considered the...
Translated from French. The Malagasy team managed to rise to third place of the podium in an international competition of robotics in the United States. On the podium. Madagascar has once again shone with his young skills on the international stage. The Malagasy team brought up the...
A team of seven Indian teenagers, who participated in the FIRST Global Robotics Olympiad in Washington, has won the Zhang Heng Engineering Design Award, surging ahead of 157 countries that participated in this year’s FIRST Global Challenge. The team also won bronze for Global Challenge Match. “Kudos...
The all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan that was initially denied entry to the United States for an international competition is taking home the silver medal. Fittingly, they received a the accolade for "courageous achievement" at the FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics competition where teams were...
As six robots battled it out on the floor of the DAR Constitution Hall’s auditorium during the FIRST Global Challenge competition Tuesday afternoon, a cheer rose above the din of voices echoing across the stands. “Team Hope! Team Hope! Team Hope!” The cheering came from a corner...
The girls of Afghanistan are strong, intelligent, and resilient. The six high school students competing in the FIRST Global international robotics competition exemplify this and so much more. The FIRST Global robotics challenge is an annual competition organized to ignite a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering,...
Students from 160 Nations to Reconvene a Year from Now in Mexico City for the Second Iteration of the FIRST Global Challenge President of the World Bank, Dr. Jim Yong Kim Underscores the Role of Technology Innovation in International Development. For Immediate Release July 18, 2017 Washington, D.C. –...
Ivanka Trump Opens Day Two of the 2017 FIRST Global Challenge at DAR Constitution Hall FIRST Global Celebrates Women in STEM with the First Daughter For Immediate Release July 18, 2017 Washington, D.C. - Senior Advisor to the President of the United States and First Daughter Ivanka Trump arrived...
FIRST Global Inaugurates the World’s First International Robot Olympics at DAR Constitution Hall Dean Kamen’s FIRST Global Challenge to be Held at DAR Constitution Hall from 16-18 July 2017 in Washington, D.C. For Immediate Release JULY 16, 2017 Washington, D.C. – This evening, FIRST Global (www.first.global) kicked off the...
Team Iran signed on to compete in the 2017 FIRST Global Challenge. The only problem? They couldn’t get a robot kit due to sanctions. Team Iran instead paired up with a robotics team from a Virgina high school who worked with them to build the...
Translated from Spanish. From July 14 to 18 the National Robotics Team will participate in the "FIRST Global" where they will compete in more than 160 countries on 5 continents, in DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC in the United States. In a solemn ceremony, and prior...
"I can build a robot, you can build a robot; together, we can build a robot. Robotics is not just for boys, but for girls, boys, and everyone." Meet Larissa, the only female member of Team Cameroon 2017. Larissa gets up at 3 a.m. to do her...
Team Afghanistan Officially Confirmed for Entry to the United States for International Robot Olympics for High School Students Nearly 160 Nations to Convene in Washington, D.C. in the Name of Science and Technology Development at DAR Constitution Hall on July 16-18 Today, the all-female robotics teams from Afghanistan...
Translated from Bosnian. At the beginning of 2017, the Secondary School of Electrical Engineering in Sarajevo received a direct invitation to participate in the First Global Challenge, which will be attended by over 160 countries worldwide. First Global Challenge is a Robotic Olympics organized by the FIRST...
All-Girls Robotics Team from Afghanistan Reported Approved for Entry to the United States - along with Gambia, Yemen, Libya, and Iran earlier this week - for International Robot Olympics for High School Students 100% of Visa Approval Rate: All 163 Participating Teams from 157 Nations Approved...
BUJUMBURA, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Burundi will participate in the first-ever robot Olympics due in Washington DC in the United States on July 16 to 18, the coach of the Burundian team said Tuesday. "Six secondary school pupils from Burundi and their coach will depart Burundi...
Dar es Salaam — The Deputy Minister for Education, Science, Technology and Vocational Training Stella Manyanya on Tuesday handed the national flag and bid farewell to seven Tanzanian students who are going to participate in International Robotic Challenge in USA. The annual challenge, organised by US...
Young Georgian inventors will travel to Washington to participate in International Robotics Olympiad ”First Global” supported by TBC Bank. The International competition will be held on July 16-18 for the first time. Participants will represent more than 160 countries. Teams are composed by 15-18 years old,...
Three Maltese ICT Students will be participating in the ‘First Global Challenge – International Robotic Olympics’ that will be held between the 16th till the 18th July in Washington DC. At Esplora, Parliamentary Secretary Silvio Schembri together with US Ambassador Gill Kathleen Hill met the three Maltese students;...
U.S. Students Partnered with Team Iran after the Team’s Robot Kit Could not Be Shipped to Iran Due to U.S. Sanctions For Immediate Release July 11, 2017 Washington, D.C. –Today, a robotics team of Iranian high school students were the first to arrive in Washington, D.C. for the inaugural FIRST...
FIRST Global to Host Nearly 160 Nations in U.S. Capital for World's 1st High School-level Robot Olympics What: FIRST Global (www.first.global) is hosting the world’s first international robot olympics for high school students this July 16 in Washington, D.C., with one team from each of the nearly...
One High School Team from Each Country to Convene in the Name of Science and Robotics from July 16-18 at DAR Constitution Hall For Immediate Release July 6, 2017 Washington, D.C. – FIRST Global (www.first.global) is hosting the world’s first international robot Olympics for high-school students, with nearly 160 participating...
Six ambitious youngsters Moldova will represent at this competition scheduled between July 16-18, 2017. They also used to partake in competitions in Estonia, Denmark and Spain. Since April, the participants have sent their schema details, and now the robot is ready to be presented. It has...
Three girls, members of SMART Sistas, have left Port Vila on their first leg of a trip to represent Vanuatu at the FIRST Global robotic challenge to be held from July 16-18, 2017 in Washington, DC, USA . Lana Molivurae from Epauto School, Lilia Raptigh from...
Six learners have been chosen to represent South Africa at the First Global Challenge: Robotics Olympics in Washington DC in July. Mentor and coach Johan Benade put together a team to participate in the inaugural challenge. The team is called Mighty Minds South Africa. Mikhaeel Reddy, Barbara Moagi...
Team Liberia faced many challenges on their way to participating in the 2017 FIRST Global Challenge. Yet despite a lack of electricity, an abundance of flooding, and no previous experience with robotics, they pushed forward....
New Delhi: FIRST Global – The Olympics of Robotics is going to be held for the first time at a global level. 160 countries are participating in this 1st inaugural year of First Global Competition (FGC) 2017. Seven Mumbai students and 1 mentor have been...
MUMBAI: Later this month, seven students from Mumbai schools will represent India at an Olympic-style robotics challenge to find solutions to provide access to clean water. Students of Jamnabai Narsee International School, Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Oberoi International School and Ecole Mondiale World School, have been...
Translated from French. They are six Malgaches, between the ages of 16 and 19, passionate about robotics and programming, and will soon fly to Washington DC to represent Madagascar at the FIRST Global Challenge, an international robotics competition. I had the chance to talk with these...
Translated from Spanish. The event, which will bring together 160 countries to participate in the first robotic world olympic called First Global Challenge in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Constitution Hall, Washington D.C., will be held from July 16 to 18. This year's "H2O FLOW"...
The competition is being held in Washington DC, USA, from 16-18 July, with one team invited from each country in the world. More than 160 nations have confirmed their attendance. St Lucia’s team is made up of three A-level students: Shergaun Roserie, Reshul Narhari, Keeghan Patrick. Loewenvell Polius,...
Team Netherlands is composed of the youngest students of FIRST Robotics Competition team 5412, Impossible Robotics. This FRC team is the second of only two FRC teams in the Netherlands. Impossible Robotics started as an FLL team in the Food Factor season back in 2011...
(SHERBROOKE) The robotics team at the Séminaire de Sherbrooke will fly to Washington soon to take part in the first edition of First Global. The Sherbrooke team is the only Canadian team to participate in the International Robotics Olympiad, which will bring together 176 teams...
Translated from Spanish. Asunción - Five young people from Los Laureles College (CEL) are preparing to attend the First Global First Robotics Olympics, scheduled to begin July 13 in Washington DC. They are José Zeissig, Eliana González, Sebastián Santacruz, Maxi Vuyx and Alejandro Molinas, all between...
Translated from Spanish. The boys were invited to participate in the REV Robotics category, which has been included in the curriculum of the private educational institution for three years. One of the mentors who accompanies the boys is the innovative teacher José Ávalos, who won a prize...
FIRST Global is an annual robotics competition taking place in the USA and bringing together gifted young inventors from all over the world. This year's competition will be held July 16-18. Washington DC Lithuania will be represented by a team from the Robotics School. The only...
FIRST Global is launching the world's first international robot Olympics for high school students in July in Washington DC, where 164 nations including teams from almost every nation in Asia will participate. 'Team Bangladesh', a 6-member group of high school students will represent Bangladesh with...
Translated from Spanish. Five teenagers will represent Nicaragua in an international robotics competition to be held in Washington, USA, July 14-20. When you want, you can and obstacles become challenges, as demonstrated by this group of young Nicaraguans, who supported by the nonprofit foundation, Fabretto, build a...
Translated from Arabic. A group of young people, consisting of 7 students from the Sfax Institute in Tunisia, will participate in the "FIRST Global Challenge", the annual robotics event to be held in Washington DC from July 13 to October 20. The group was selected by the...
Translated from Spanish. With ingenuity, humility, and above all; A proud Venezuelan flag, a group of young Venezuelans will represent Venezuela for the first time in the FIRST Global Challengue 2017 robotics competition in Washingtong D.C. (U.S). The Venezuelan delegation is named Venebot (Venezuelan Robots for being...
Translated from Spanish. More than 160 countries will participate in the first First Global Robotics Olympics, to be held in the United States from July 14 to 18. The competition aims to bring together future young leaders in technology. Guatemala will be represented by young people, who...
“When I was 12 years old, I dreamed of standing on the stage and becoming famous because of my inventions,” said Chanty, 17, a high school student in Siem Reap. Next month, Chanty and her five teammates will travel to the United States to compete...
MANAGUA – Five teenagers will represent Nicaragua at an international robotics competition to be held in Washington DC from July 14-20, authorities at the foundation supporting them announced Tuesday. The teens will go up against other competitors from more than 160 countries in a contest where...
Translated from Albanian. Kosovar high school students Elita Hajrizi, Liburn Bajraktari, Flokart Pajaziti, Gezim Morina and Rigon Statovci, under the mentorship of UBT Rector, Edmond Hajrizi, will be representatives of Kosovo in the largest international competition in the field of robotics , FIRST Global Challenge, to...
THREE students will build a robot in a contest against high school teams from 160 countries in Washington DC next month. The Grace Lutheran College Rothwell students Sarah Lockyer from Bracken Ridge, Daniel McGowan from North Lakes and Zac Manoiloff from Woody Point will compete to...
RUKUBOT TEAM, Team Nepal Participating on “First Global Challenges” at Washington DC, USA on July, 2017. Nepal commonly known as the multilingual, multicultural and multireligious country is one of the developing countries in the world. The world has moved forward in the field of Science,...
Recently, Team RUKUBOT held a meeting with parents and guardians of all team members. The main objective of the meeting was to share our feelings regarding the project. All Team RUKUBOT members were present along their parents, team mentor and other caretakers of the team....
Robotic team representing Albania at the First Inaugural Robot Competition in Washington D.C is pleased to invite you to Robot Reveal. --> Read More...
Translated from Portuguese. The Group of Schools of Dr. Serafim Leite, from S. João da Madeira, will represent Portugal in the international programming and robotics competition designated FIRST Global. The competition takes place in the United States from 16 to 18 July. --> Read More...
(People in the Picture, from left to right: Lina Chen, Atreyam Sharma, Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, Shawn Teusch, Laura Märker, Pit Baum, Yannick Martins Dos Santos, Kimon Leners, Co-Mentor Annabel Schoellen, Mentor Ronny Osweiler) Hello, we are Team Luxembourg and we are very proud to participate...
Four students from South Auckland are aiming to solve the world's problems using robotics. Kacey Roberts, Daniel Gallahar-Ikitule, Esther Asi and Vanshika Ram will represent New Zealand at an Olympics-style robotics competition in the United States in July. The theme for the First Global competition this year...
With a mission to spread science and technology leadership around the world, FIRST Global is launching the world’s first International Robotics Olympiad for high school students which will take place from July 16 - 18 in Washington D.C. More than 160 nations have registered to participate in the event,...
Translated from Portuguese. Serafim Leite Secondary School in São João da Madeira announced today that it will represent Portugal in the world competition that in July will evaluate new programming and robotics solutions for potable water storage in the United States. The "FIRST Global" competition, organized by...
A young and talented group from the Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church yesterday won first place at Guyana’s inaugural robot and technology exhibition. Held at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue, the exhibition was facilitated by STEMGuyana, which will also enable a local team’s participation...
A team of local students is preparing to represent Bermuda at the inaugural FIRST Global robotics competition. The all-female team of five Bermuda High School students will battle it out Olympics-style against 162 other teams from around the world in Washington DC next month. The girls have...
THE nine-member team representing Guyana at the inaugural Robot Olympics next month in Washington D.C. is currently perfecting the robot they have to build for the event and building the overall team capacity. The team consists of: 15-19 year old participants: Ryan Benschop, Anthony Frank, Arianna...
A team comprising several young people, who are part of the Science, Technology, and Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Guyana Project will be representing Guyana in July at the First Global Robotic Challenge in Washington D.C, United States of America, with support from the Government, through...
A team of youths, who will be representing Guyana in the FIRST Global Robotic Challenge in the United States (US) next month, has received support amounting to GYD$2.5 million, the Ministry of the Presidency announced Thursday. The group is part of the Science, Technology, and Engineering and...
The team is formed of long time School of Robotics (Robotikos mokykla) students in Vilnius, Lithuania. All three of the teammates have been participating and winning robotics competitions for high school students such as FLL, Robocup Jr, as well as hackathons for students and adult...
Translated from Ukrainian. July 14 in the U.S. will be the FIRST Global Challenge - the world's first Olympic Games in robotics for children. Teams from 160 countries, including Ukraine, will take part in the competition. The subject of the upcoming competitions is a water crisis and...
Ashlyn: Ashlyn was head girl of her Primary School, Paget Primary, which has an annual science fair which, along with the local Math Olympiad, helped to spark Ashlyn’s love of science and technology. Ashlyn is a Language Leader, the president of the Eco Club at The...
Translated from Dutch. Suriname is one of the 163 countries participating in the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge, held in Washington D.C., America from 16 to 18 July 2017. The team that will depart consists of 3 teenagers between the ages of 15 and 18 and an...
Translated from Dutch. Suriname is one of the 163 countries participating in the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge, held in Washington D.C., America from 16 to 18 July 2017. The team that will depart consists of 3 teenagers between the ages of 15 and 18 and an...
Translated from Dutch. PARAMARIBO - 16-year-old Ivana Codrington (16), Ayan Jhagroe (16), 18-year-old Shayant Sital and mentor Daniel Lachman will represent Surinam from 16 to 18 July during the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge in Washington. The team will prove with a self-propelled robot to successfully address...
Translated from Dutch. Ivana Codrington (16), Ayan Jhagroe (16), Shayant Sital (18) will participate on behalf of Suriname at the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge, held in Washington D.C., America from 16 to 18 July 2017. Daniel Lachman (technical team mentor) goes along as their supervisor. Suriname...
Our team is comprised of teenagers from different high schools in the provice of Matanzas, Cuba. We were brought two years ago by a member of Canada’s Team Kinetic Knights, who introduced us to this wonderful and exciting world of robotics. This is the first...
Contestants from 160 countries will build robots revolving around access to clean water. The goal is to show the leaders of tomorrow that by communicating, cooperating, and working together, using the tools of science and engineering, they can change the world. According to former US Navy...
Translated from Portuguese. A team consisting of 4 students and 1 teacher from Liceu Ludgero Lima and Technical School of São Vicente will represent Cape Verde this July in the 1st International Robot Competition to be held in Washington DC, United States of America. It is an...
FIRST Global (www.first.global) is hosting the world’s first international robot Olympics for high-school students, with nearly 160 participating nations – along with six continental teams representing the major land masses – each committed to sending one team to represent their country on the world stage. The...
Washington, D.C. – FIRST Global (www.first.global) is hosting the world’s first international robot Olympics for high-school students, with nearly 160 participating nations including Liberia– along with six continental teams representing the major land masses – each committed to sending one team to represent their country...
Translated from Slovak. FIRST Global launches an entirely new kind of Olympics, this time focusing on the invention of the young generation. The Slovak team will take on the highly determined, hard-working students of the bilingual gymnasium of Galileo School in Bratislava. Viliam, the two Martinovia, Andrej,...
Translated from Portuguese. The Portuguese Team is from the Dr. Serafim Leite School Group, from S. João da Madeira. They are Reuben, Rui, Raul and João are the team that will represent Portugal in this world mission. The First Global Challenge is an international robotics event with...
Cape Verde is an island country made up of ten islands, in which nine are inhabited with just over half a million inhabitants. The islands were discovered over five hundred years ago by the Portuguese discoverers, having become independent forty-two years ago. A country with few natural...
Translated from Spanish. Three teenagers from Limon will represent Costa Rica in an international robotics competition called the FIRST Global Challenge. The competition will be held July 16-18 in Washington, United States, and will bring together 260 other teams from around the world. Those selected are Johardy Hunter...
“There are teams from nearly 160 countries this year. It’s not just about solving global problems. It’s about solving problems together with those from other cultures,” said Samantha Tenduf-La – an overseer of Team Sri Lanka describing the FIRST Global Challenge 2017. In case you’re...
The Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) Robotics Club is a school-based club with members ranging from Secondary 1 (Grade 7) to Pre-U 2 (Grade 12). We take in members in Secondary One who may or may not have robotics experience. Through learning on the job in preparing...
7+1 is not eight, it is the sound of productivity -- the hours in a working day. The amount of perspiration required to deliver success. I say it is one short the number of tribes in Zambia. 7+1 is simply not enough that is why...
Translated from Spanish. "Two learners from Manizales, and two others from Medellín and Soacha, are members of the SENA team that will travel to Washington D.C. in July, to demonstrate that Colombia has advanced in science, technology, engineering and mathematics from the earliest age," said Mauricio Giraldo,...
Translated from Serbian. Our team of high school students several months of discussions and preparation robot which in July will represent Serbia at the International Olympics in robotics in Washington. Vladan Joksimovic, Teodora Golubovic and Lazar Švraka from the private Belgrade High School "Creative Pen" Dalibor Naspalić,...
Team Barbados is led by Mr Matthew Douglas, an Electronics and Electrical Technology Teacher with 20 years professional experience at the secondary level. Passionate and dedicated to the teaching profession, Mr Douglas constantly encourages his students to soar beyond the boundaries. He has mentored countless...
Translated from Spanish. Designing, assembling and controlling a robot that can enter a simulated river in a model and capable of separating particles of water will be some of the challenges that four apprentices from three SENA technoacademies will have to overcome, who will represent Colombia...
Translated from Catalan. The team RoboCaspers, consisting of four Catalonian teenagers, has been selected to represent Spain in FIRST Global, a robotics competition that will gather youth from 160 countries to overcome a series of challenges based on facilitating access to the potable water. This is not the...
To our team we welcome any students from any schools, but the most students come to us from Physics and Mathematics Lyceum №30 (Saint-Petersburg). We meet in the robotic engineering center based on this school. Members of our team change every year. To be chosen to...
TEAM Woodford International School (WIS) will represent Solomon Islands in the United States in the field of competitive robotic building next month. The team of four dedicated science and technology WIS students, under the guidance of school mentor, Rakesh Pandey, are gearing up for the FIRST...
SUDAN is one of the most diverse countries in the world, as well as the team that represent it in FIRST GLOBAL. The members of TEAM SUDAN believe that Technology and Science will play the biggest role in solving the real issues that faces their country,...
Kemuel Roberts Kemuel Roberts is currently studying Biology, Maths, and Physics at the Dominica State College (DSC). He enjoys sports, his favorite being football and his favorite team being Manchester United F.C. An interesting fact is that he played for his community football youth academy and...
Translated from Serbian. Team of the Republic of Serbia in the robotics olympics make disciples gymnasium Kreativno Pero, Serbian high school Nikola Tesla in Budapest and XII Belgrade High School, and was formed at the invitation of the organizers of the project - the International Committee...
South Sudan Robotics Team was founded in Feb 2017 by its mentor Kuc Mayur with the support of Samuel Garang Akau of the University of Juba, School of Public Service and Youth empowerment Network South Sudan. Kuc is being assisted in robotics work by an...
A team of Portuguese high school students will travel from Portugal to participate in the inaugural International Robot Olympics to be hosted in Washington, DC, at Constitution Hall, July 16-18, to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge. Contestants from 160 countries will build robots revolving around...
Translated from Ukrainian. The Ukrainian team is sent to the world's first Olympic competition in robotics. The team from Kiev is young people 15-16 years old. To participate in competitions, they designed a robot, which will be presented at the competitions in Washington. The head of international...
Elita Hajrizi Hello, I am Elita Hajrizi. I am a team member and the spokesperson of First Global Team Kosovo. I am 16 years old and a student in "Xhevdet Doda" High School. I have always been really interested in STEM areas,which is why I chose to...
We are Team Asia of Oman. Our team consists of a mentor and four students from grades 10 and 11 from different schools across the Oman. The team members were selected through mechanical engineering tests, some software and interviews. The team members always get high...
Tomas, Jakub and Ondra are students of DELTA, school of informatics and economy in Pardubice. There is a robotic course led by Mgr. Pavel Kycl is a teacher from Gymnazium Dašická. When Tomas and Jakub visited this course for the first time, they knew nothing....
Tim naših srednjoškolaca već mesecima pravi i priprema robota sa kojim će u julu predstavljati Srbiju na Međunarodnim olimpijskim igrama u robotici u Vašingtonu. Vladana Joksimović, Teodora Golubović i Lazar Švraka iz privatne beogradske gimnazije "Kreativno pero", Dalibor Naspalić, Ilija Grk i Matija Đurović, učenici srpske...
Solomon Islands students will participate for the first in a global robotics competition in Washington DC July this year. A team of four students from the Woodford International School will compete with students from more than 160 nations in the event. Solomon Islands was the only team...
FIRST global team Botswana is made up of 5 students and 2 Mentors. The Mentors are Mrs Gaone Karabo who works as a Senior Teacher of Computer Studies in Kagiso Senior Secondary School in Ramotswa, which is a small village just outside the capital city Gaborone.Mr....
In Washington, July 14, 2017 for the first time in the history of robotics competitions held FIRST GLOBAL Challenge in the Olympic format. Ukraine to present his work team of three contestants aged 15-16 and mentor. The theme of the first Olympic competition FIRST GLOBAL Challenge...
Givi Zaldastanishvili American Academy of FIRST Global team, which the American Academy, Physics and Mathematics v.komarovis N199 public school and found. Vekua Physics and Mathematics N42 public school students, consisting of a mentor for the robotics project will hold a presentation of the invited guests,...
My name is Itumeleng Maboiketlo Khalala and I am science secondary school teacher and I work at Pulane High school. I graduated in 2009 at Lesotho college of education and am furthering my studies with the university of South Africa in Pretoria part time. I am...
Four students from St Peter’s Lutheran College in Indooroopilly will join their peers from Grace Lutheran College as members of Team Australia, on their way to the USA to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge. The event is an international robotics competition to be held...
We are team Solomon Islands and proud to represent out school Woodford International School and the Island Nation in South Pacific Ocean. We are a very young team that assembled about 8 weeks ago. We come with basic exposure to Robotics that came by because...
[vc_row][vc_column width='3/4'] Team Mexico is formed by students from different schools and states, the youngest member is 15 years old and the oldest is 18. Of the 7 participants, 4 are members of the FTC category and from Chihuahua, Chihuahua, a city near the United States...
My name is Moumouni Mounkaila Souley, and I am the mentor of Team Niger. I have a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Nigeria (LAUTECH). I work at the Ministry of Agriculture’s Department of Statistics, and I teach courses such as...
Robots are gradually taking the part of human in nature. It would not be wrong to say that in some decades the life will be made easier by robots performing many tasks. For some it is a good news and foe others it is not...
The Gabon team has just been created at the Jean Fidèle OTANDO technical high school in Port-Gentil after the announcement of the major global challenge (First Global) on 10 April 2017 by the senior administrative officials of the technical and vocational education of our country. It...
The setting is the ground floor of a tastefully furnished duplex at Surulere, Lagos. It is raining lightly; it has been raining, in fact, since morning. At the gate, the security man and a few other people stand under a small shelter, and they all...
We are Istak Lyceum - International School Robotics Team from Baku, Azerbaijan. It will be great robotics experience for us to participate in First Global and also we look forward to make a new friendship network in this amazing tournament. Our team participated in different robotics...
A group of Guyanese are set to participate in the inaugural Robot Olympics slated for July in Washington, District of Colombia (DC), USA. Last week, First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger met the group of young participants and informed them that the Ministry of Education and other organizations...
Team Suriname is very excited and delighted to be part of the FIRST Global Challenge (H2O Flow) Games 2017. For each team member, this will be the first time participating in a robotics competition outside of what is known to be the greenest country on...
Translated from Spanish. The FIRST Global Challenge is an international robotics event with more than 100 countries from around the world. These delegations will travel to Washington, D.C. next July to participate in the inaugural game to be held in the capital of a different nation...
TEAM GUYANA The Co-operative Republic of Guyana, also more commonly known as “Guyana”, is a small country located on Northern South America. Despite its location on South America, the country has strong Caribbean roots, and therefore has a rich Caribbean culture. It is also the only...
Situated near the Black sea and Caucasus mountains Georgia is a place where one can ski and take dive into worm sea waters in matter of hours. In different regions of Georgia you will find diverse delicious food, quality wine and different temperaments, but one...
Translated from Albanian. Team Albania is the team that will represent Albania in the FIRST Global Challenge on 13-20 July in Washington DC, where they will compete with teams from around the world. The team consists of 10 students from different schools in the capital and...
Translated from Maltese. MCAST students attending college have been selected to jipprateċipaw in the first competition of its kind; Olympics-the International Robot Competition. Such as along with 160 nationwide, including 40 nation of Europe, will be competing in Washington DC between 16 and 20 July. Students, Patrick...
The inaugural FIRST Global challenge will be held 16-18 July 2017 in Washington, DC (on the grounds of the Constitutional Hall). The challenge is organized as Olympic competition among the teams from more than 160 countries. The national teams will be composed of high school-age...
Translated from German. Vienna / Weiz (APA) - US organization First Global is organizing the first International Robotic Olympiad for High-Level Students in Washington DC (USA) from 16 to 18 July. Teams from 160 countries from all continents participate. Austria is represented by a team of...
Cameroon’s Larissa is the only girl selected to be part of the team of students who will be representing their various countries in this year’s international robotics challenge. The 16 year old, who lives with her mother, two sisters, three brothers and two nephews in her uncle’s...
Translated from Spanish. The FIRST Global Challenge is an international robotics event with more than 100 participating countries, where delegations will travel to the city of Washington DC this July to participate in the inaugural game to be held in that city and then take place in...
For years, Nigeria as a country has not been pulling any trees where the field of robotics is concerned. This is not because Nigerians are less interested in robotics as their other counterparts in many countries of the world, but majorly because the prevailing conditions...
Translated from Hungarian. https://youtu.be/hns3HmQAUPE We went to the Fazekas Secondary School in Budapest and made a really special unboxing video with the home team of First Global's robotic competition. As a stairway to LEGO tournaments, only in America, this year, the teams have been invited from many...
(Seychelles News Agency) - Six secondary students from Seychelles will participate in an international robotics challenge in Washington D.C. in July. A robot kit was handed over recently to the team in Seychelles, a group of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean, by the International First Committee Association through...
Washington D.C. (U.S.), May. 25. A Peruvian nine-strong group of secondary school students will represent the Inca country at FIRST Global's very first Global Challenge, an international robot olympics to be held this July in D.C. Peru will thus become one of the 150+ nations participating in...
COLONIA, Yap (Press Release) — Elaborate cultural dances and seafaring canoes have made the Micronesian Islands of Yap famous, but this month it was the ultra-advanced Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math skills of local students on display. An annual competition and exhibition organized by Yap Catholic High...
We are the robotics team known as Mish-Mash 12016. We operate as part of the Jusidman Science Center for Youth, in the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Our team is represented by two girls and five boys, from separate schools and different ages that...
Translated from Spanish. Five young people from the San Francisco Educational Center of the Acahualinca neighborhood of Managua will represent Nicaragua in the first Robotics Olympics of the First Global organization based in Washington D.C., USA. Víctor Gutiérrez, Gloria Jarquín, Alejandra Mercado, Ana María Zeledón and Engell...
Greetings from Team Brunei Darussalam. We are a 7 member team, consisting of 6 girls and 1 boy from private and government schools and higher education institute. We are very excited to be a part of this unique global initiative to promote STEM education. Thus far,...
We are Team Guatemala, we have seven official team members, but below are all of those who have contributed to our team: Andrea Mariel Taqué De León is 16 years old and will turn 17 in July 17th. She is the older sibling, she has a...
What is FIRST for us, who are we, what we want to achieve and how do we do it? There are six of us, young and extremely ambitious students from various secondary schools in Kraśnik district, Poland supported by one Polish born student from the USA. We came...
Empoderando a la Mujer como Agente de Cambio a través de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Mujeres del Mundo Organizaron más de los cerca de 160 Equipos Nacionales y 5 Continentales Participando en las Primeras Olimpiadas de Robótica a Nivel de Educación Secundaria Para Difusión Inmediata 16...
Renforcer le Pouvoir d’Action des Femmes comme Agentes de Change à travers de la Science et la Technologie Les Femmes du Monde ont Organisé plus de 100 des près de 160 Équipes nationales et 5 Équipes Continentales qui participeront aux Premiers Jeux Olympiques Mondiales du...
Empowering Women as Agents of Change through Science and Technology Women of the World Organized more than 100 of the nearly 160 National and 5 Continental Teams Attending World’s First High School-Level Robot Olympics For Immediate Release 16 May 2017 Alexandria, VA. With a mission to inspire...
Translated from Spanish. 160 national and 5 continental teams of high school students will participate in these olympics in Washington, D.C. in July. Ellas.mx - Despite the increase of women in careers related to politics, humanities, economics and the arts, women continue to be segregated in the fields...
Translated from Greek. We do not stop surprising the young Xanthi of robotics. After their huge success in 2015 at the Olympics in Qatar and the silver medal and last year's 4th place in Olympiada in India it's time to be distinguished in the United States. In July,...
Construire un Programme d'Éducation plus Cohérente Grâce à la Science et à la Technologie Près de 40 nations Européennes Participeront aux Premiers Jeux Olympiques Internationaux de Robotique pour les Étudiants du Secondaire Pour Diffusion Immédiate 10 Mai 2017 Alexandria, VA. - FIRST Global (www.first.global) accueillera les premiers jeux...
Construyendo una Agenda de Educación más Cohesiva a través de la Ciencia y Tecnología Cerca de 40 Naciones Europeas - Incluyendo 27 Estados Miembros de la UE - Participarán en las Primeras Olimpiadas Mundiales de Robótica para Estudiantes de Educación Secundaria Para su Difusión Inmediata 10 de mayo...
Building a more Cohesive Education Agenda through Science and Technology Nearly 40 European Nations – Including 27 EU Member States – to Participate in World’s First, International Robot Olympics for High School Students For Immediate Release 10 May 2017 Alexandria, VA. - FIRST Global (www.first.global) is hosting the world’s...
Mbarete Guarani (Powerful Guarani Team) Coming from the Traditional Guarani nation, Team Paraguay is composed of 7 members, which they are 5 talented Students (Maximiliano Alejandro Vuyk Gonzalez, Sebastian Santacruz Viñales, Alejandro José Molinas Vega,Eliana Montserrat Gonzalez Lopez, José Zeizig) and 2 Profesional Mentors (José Cayetano...
Three girls, members of SMART Sistas, will represent Vanuatu at the inaugural FIRST Global challenge to be held from 16-18 July, 2017 in Washington DC, USA. Each country will be represented by its chosen national team, which will compete with its self-assembled robot within constantly changing cooperative...
We are team Saint Lucia comprising of students Reshul Narhari, Keeghan Patrick and Shergaun Roserie from the Division of Arts, Sciences and General Studies of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College (SALCC), guided by our coach, Mr. Loewenvell Polius. Reshul (17), who won the National Award...
We are Team Trinidad and Tobago. Our team has two mentors, Shastri Ram and Daniel Ramsook. The competitors in our team are Fahad Hosein, Josef Gonsalez and Avidesh Marajh. Team Trinidad and Tobago is being represented by the students of Presentation College, Chaguanas, the premier...
Team Bahamas is comprised of high school students from Saint Augustine’s College in Nassau, The Bahamas. These students are members of the school’s Computer Science club, Google CS First facilitated by the team’s mentor, Dauran McNeil. The Bahamas is an archipelago comprising of 700 islands and cays...
We are team South America and we are proud to represent so many cultures, countries and people. Being from Perú helps us to understand how enriched we are by the diversity we have and gives us a unique way to see the world. The team combines the...
Our team was brought together by their love of coding and robotics. All our team members are active member of the school’s coding and robotics clubs. As a team, the students have not participated in any robotics competitions before. As a school, we have sent teams to participate in the following...
The Maltese team will be represented by Clive Tonna, Andrea Abela and Patrick Brejza mentored by Conrad Vassallo from the ICT Institute of the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology, MCAST. The team consists of top ICT students, all of whom are eager to apply the knowledge learned from MCAST...
The team Slovenia is an example of cooperation between Zavod 404 and the Upper Secondary School Vegova Ljubljana. The mentors are Rok Capuder (Physics), Aleš Volčini (Informatics) and Vida Vidmar (English). The team members are: Mark Breznik, Gašper Hribar, David Kraševec, Luka Maček, Jernej Macarol...
Fortaleciendo la Educación STEM en América del Norte a través de la Robótica Cerca de 20 Naciones en Norteamérica, Centroamérica y el Caribe Participarán en las Primeras Olimpiadas Internacionales de Robótica para Estudiantes de Secundaria Para Difusión Inmediata 4 de mayo del 2017 Alexandria, VA. - FIRST Global (www.first.global)...
Strengthening STEM Education in North America through Robotics Nearly 20 Nations throughout North America, Central America, and the Caribbean to Participate in World’s First, International Robot Olympics for High School Students For Immediate Release 4 May 2017 Alexandria, VA. - FIRST Global (www.first.global) is hosting the world’s first international...
Empowering the Youth of Asia through Science and Technology High School Students from More Than 40 Nations Across Asia to Compete in World’s First, International Robot Olympics For Immediate Release 2 May 2017 Alexandria, VA. - FIRST Global (www.first.global) is launching the world’s first international robot Olympics for high...
Advancing South America’s Education Agenda through Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics High School Students from Every South American Nation to Participate in World’s First, International Robot Olympics For Immediate Release 26 April 2017 Alexandria, VA. - FIRST Global (www.first.global) is hosting the world’s first international robot Olympics for high...
Avanzando la Agenda de Educación de América del Sur a través de la Ciencia, Tecnología, Ingeniería y Matemáticas Estudiantes de Secundaria de todas las Naciones Sudamericanas participarán en las Primeras Olimpiadas de Robótica del Mundo Para difusión inmediata 26 de abril 2017 Alexandria, VA. - FIRST Global (www.first.global) será el anfitrión...
Team Canada is represented by 7 students and 1 mentor from FIRST Robotics Competition Team Evolution 2626. We hail from the simple city of Sherbrooke in Francophone, Canada. We have a burning passion for problem-solving and bridge-building and are impatiently awaiting these first FIRST Global...
Alexandria, VA. – FIRST Global (www.first.global) is hosting the world’s first international robot Olympics for high school students this July in Washington, D.C., with nearly 160 nations in attendance, including more than 40 nations from Africa. With each nation planning to send one team to represent...
We are so excited to become a part of your big family. Our team is very young yet, because in Moldova robotics is not so developed. Three years ago, thanks to United States Agency for International Development, the LEGO Mindstorms classes started in schools of...
Hi Everyone, Greetings from Ireland. To introduce ourselves: We are four students from Confey College, Leixlip in county Kildare. Confey is a mixed secondary school catering for 756 students studying 30 different subject areas. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects are very popular with all students...
This is the first time that our team participates in a robotics competition , we actually met each other thanks to this competition. We trust each other with our different capabilities, when someone has an idea, we deliberate about it and we don’t reject them. It’s not...
Translated from Serbian. The Serbian Team in this year's Olympics in robotics, which will be in July in Washington in the United States, consists of students of the Gymnasium Kreativno Pero, Serbian Grammar School Nikola Tesla from Budapest, and the Twelfth Belgrade High School, had the opportunity to...
Vanuatu lacks information communication technology training to empower girls ages 11-15 to use technology to become leaders in the ICT field. In November 2014, a committee comprised of public and private partnerships was formed to create the first annual five day SMART Sistas ICT Camp for...
ايجاد فرص أفريقيا الكامنه من خلال العلوم والتكنولوجيا والهندسة والرياضيات...
A la Découverte du Potentiel Inexploité de l’Afrique par la Science, la Technologie, l’Ingénierie et les Mathématiques Pour Diffusion Immédiate 24 avril, 2017 Alexandria, VA. - FIRST Global (www.first.global) lancera les premiers jeux Olympiques internationaux de Robotique pour les étudiants de niveau secondaire ce juillet à Washington, D.C.,...
40-Plus African Nations to Attend 1st International Robot Olympics for High School Students in Washington, D.C. For Immediate Release 24 April 2017 Alexandria, VA. - FIRST Global (www.first.global) is hosting the world’s first international robot Olympics for high school students this July in Washington, D.C., with nearly 160 nations...
We are Mathis (13), Antoine (16) and Quentin (17), the three students of the team. We are good friends, united by our interest in technologies. We began separately by learning to code (scratch, python, arduino, etc...
We are a team of 7 creative students, gathered by one common hobby - robotics. And we are honored to represent Belarus at the FIRST Global Challenge 2017 in Washington. All members of our team are enthusiastic and active persons, who are very excited to take part in such an incredible and...
We are the team from Venezuela from one of the most wonderful of countries. We are known known for some of the most attractive of climates with people who are gracious with everyone. When we talk about opportunities and being strong, we are talking about both Venezuelans here at home and...
Team Albania is comprised of several students from many schools in the capital city, and surrounding cities Elbasan, Shijak and Durres. It’s members are Julian Grori (Student) from Technical Electrical School “Gjergj Canco”, Marko Berberi (Student) from “Sami Frasheri” High School, Donaldo Biba (Student) from...
A group secondary school student drawn from public and private schools are now ready to represent Nigeria at the First Global Robot Olympic Challenges alongside 149 youths from other nations of the world. Founded by philanthropic inventor Dean Kamen to inspire a passion for science and...
Nigeria’s First Global Robot Challenges National Coordinator, Mrs. Remi Willoughby, has said the development of soft skills will help the government to tackle youth unemployment and its associated challenge of increasing crime rates in the country. Speaking in Lagos during a media event to unveil the...
Nigeria will be represented at the FIRST Global Robot Challenges (FGRC) with 149 other nations thanks to efforts by Faisal Jarmakani, robotics enthusiast; Mrs. Remi Willoughby, an exceptional educator; and Professor Sola Sofola, emeritus professor of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Lagos. Founded by Dean...
Those who think that Nigeria does not have what it takes for global competitiveness in the knowledge economy should better have a rethink. With the innovative skills shown by the talented Nigerian students, there are positive signals that the country will not left out in the...
Translated from Spanish. Mexico, April 6 (Notimex) - A group of young Mexican students will represent the country for the first time in the robotics world championship, FIRST Global Challenge 2017 to be held in Washington DC, USA from July 14 to 18. The Mexican representative who will...
Translated from Serbian. On the proposal of FIRST Global, the organizers of the International Olympiad in robotics, students gymnasium Kreativno Pero will together with students of the Serbian high school Nikola Tesla in Budapest and with his mentor will represent our country during the Olympic Games in...
Translated from Spanish. With the aim of boosting the talent of our young people worldwide, Ricardo Salinas through the Azteca Foundation, sponsors the National Team that will compete in the FIRST World Robotics Olympics at the secondary level and where more than 155 countries will participate. To give...
Translated from Spanish. A professor at San Francisco Xavier University's Faculty of Technology, Said Pérez, said Tuesday that the team of students from Chuquisaca will present a robot to measure and care for water quality in the FIRST Global Challenge, which will be held from July 14 to 18...
When was the last time you heard about the Yap Robotics team? The Yap Robotics team you say? The only thing we know about Yap is stone money, manta rays and grass skirts! Au contraire. The Habele Outer Island Education Fund is a U.S.-based 501(c)3 nonprofit, started...
PATRICIO VICTOR ESTERA, electrical engineer, lecturer of automatic control modules at the INSTITUTO INDUSTRIAL DE MAPUTO, 48 years old, passionate about the areas of instrumentation and automation, so he was chosen to become a mentor of the Mozambican team that will participate in the first...
As part of the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the American Corner program in the Limón Public Library, Major Benjamin Thomas Lynch, a joint effort with the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica, a group of youth people from different universities and high schools of...
Team Denmark consist of four students from Teknisk Gymnasium Silkeborg, and all four students study Science at Teknisk Gymnasium Silkeborg. Esben has just graduated and the rest (Rasmus, Christian and Michael is entering their senior year at Teknisk Gymnasium Silkeborg. It is their first time...
Hey everyone! It’s TEAM ST. KITTS and NEVIS, participating in our first ever experience with FIRST Global Robotic Challenge. Don’t count us out though because we are a set of determined, persistent and hardworking youth. In our country, we have an up and coming robotics program that...
From ITT “M. Buonarroti”, Trento, Italy. We are all enthusiastic and honored to be part of this prestigious global challenge. We are six students at a technical high school with different skills and backgrounds: Marco (18) and Gabriele (17) are in the fourth year with a...
As a Small Island Developing State, the Federated States of Micronesia are going to be among the first to need to adapt to the impending effects of global climate change. Team Micronesia was thrilled to be invited to participate in the 2017 FIRST Global Challenge...
Team Turkmenistan is made from three students, Ahmet, Erkin and Muhammetnur. Their mentor is Berdimyrat Yazhanov. Ahmet is just 15 years old. He is the youngest. He had been coding for 3 years. Erkin is the physics student. He had been solving physics problems for...
We are the Fazekas RoboTeam at Fazekas Mihály Gimnázium in Budapest, Hungary. The team is active since 2003. We participated in many national and international competitions and collected lots of awards and appreciation. It's a great honour for us, that this year we can participate at the...
The members of Argentina's national team are members of the Educabot robotics team. For us it is an honor to be able to participate in this competition and share our passion for robotics with teams from all over the world. Although we have experience in robotics, the...
From end of the world to the new start; North America has always been the land full of dreams, promises, and thriving people; welcome to “The New World”. We are excited to be part of the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge. Rumor has it that ”Two heads...
We're team Africa we're from Morocco Casablanca. We are from school Le cedre. We're full of energy and we all had a great experience working on this robot hopping it will make Morocco proud of us this is who we are...
¡Un Nuevo tipo de Olimpiadas! FIRST Global Recibirá a más de 150 Naciones en la Capital de E.U.A para las Primeras Olimpiadas Mundiales de Robótica A Nivel de Educación Secundaria Para Circulación Inmediata 30 de marzo 2017 Alexandria, VA. – FIRST Global está lanzando un nuevo tipo de Olimpiadas, pero esta...
The famously traditional Island of Stone Money is sending top students to a high tech global robotics competition. Students from 153 nations will gather in Washington, D.C. this summer for the international high school robotics Olympics. Few will have traveled as far — geographically or culturally...
The Mali national team will be in training soon to participate in FIRST global in the United States and Panafricain Robotique Competition (PARC) in Senegal, two competitions on robotics. Malians will have to compete with thousands of children across the world. --> Read More ...
Translated from Malay VALUE: Seven students aged between 15 and 17 years selected to represent Malaysia at the robotics competition FIRST Global Challenge in Washington D.C., USA on 16-18 July. They are King Adam Ahmad Sultan of SMK Kubang Kerian, Muhammad Jamil Razif (MRSM Lenggong), Janice...
The First Global is the organization that composes a yearly worldwide robot challenge to touch off enthusiasm for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) among the more than two billion youth over the world. FIRST Global welcomes one group from each country to take an...
The big robotics competitions are getting ready. The teams in Mali face the challenges of more than 140 countries around the world this July in Washington DC and other African countries. Inerde, an organization responsible for training Mali teams on Saturday announced the list of...
FIRST Global, as its tradition for some previous years, this time to is organizing the international robotics challenge. It aims to help promote the love and passion for Science and Technology and attract people towards Engineering and Mathematics. The four points they focus on are called...
Un Nouveau type de jeux Olympiques! FIRST Global Accueillera plus de 150 Pays à la Capital Américaine pour les Premiers Jeux Olympiques de Robotique au Niveau Secondaire Pour Diffusion Immédiate 30 mars 2017 Alexandria, VA. – FIRST Global lance un nouveau type d’Olympiques, mais cette fois avec un focus sur...
A Whole New Kind of Olympics! FIRST Global to Host More than 150 Nations in U.S. Capital for World’s 1st High School-level Robot Olympics For Immediate Release March 30, 2017 Alexandria, VA. – FIRST Global is launching a whole new kind of Olympics, but this time with a focus on what...
Joseph Berwith François Completed his high school at “Institution Nouvelle Source. After a brilliant course at “Ecole Supérieure d'Infotronique d'Haïti (ESIH)”, where he graduated with a Master's degree in Networks and Telecommunications, he was awarded a scholarship from the “Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)”...
We are proud and excited to be representing the continent of Oceania at the inaugural FIRST Global competition. Our team is made up of six Year 11 students and two mentors from FTC Team 10247, the Trinity BaCoNeers. We live in South Australia, the driest state in...
We are a college robotics team from Collyer's, a Sixth Form in the South of England. Every year, our college robotics team competes in Student Robotics, a robotics competition for colleges around the country (and a few from Europe). This year we came third, the best result our team has...
Nestled between the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the southeastern Caribbean Sea is ‘The Spice of the Caribbean’, Grenada, Carriacou, Petite Martinique. Branded for its spices, beaches, warm people and untouched natural beauty, Grenada is quaint and rich in history, culture and tradition. Like the...
Young Leaders Academy team from Alexandria, Egypt is honored to be a part of the first “First Global Challenge”. Our team consists of 4 members: Amany, Youmna, Mohannad & Mohamed, our ages range from 15-16 years old. Amany & Mohamed are grade 10 students, while Yomna...
We are happy to be participating in The First Global competition! Our team is made of 5 students and 1 mentor. Most of our members haven’t seen each other until this competition but we all have the same passion of solving problems, building robots and...
The Republic children engineering-technical academy “Altyn tujun” is a unique state institution for out of school additional education. It is the center of children’s technical creation and new educational technologies in Kyrgyz Republic. In the clubs of the Academy children are busy not only with engineering,...
Hi, we are Team Japan! We are party of 6 boys and 1 girl. We've been together participating in FLL for several years. We're the students learning robotics at after school class called Crefus. It's our dream that one day the technology that we are learning will...
Kyaw Za Zaw I am a fresh graduate of a private high school in Yangon who is interested in all things tech. I am currently learning coding and am very passionate about solving problems and making things. I spend most of my time following on the...
I'm Badr Alhabsy, Head of Innovation and Scientific Olympiad Department at the Ministry of Education. Also I'm the team's leader and I have one coach who communicates with the team, because the students are deaf and he is their teacher, and he is a sciences...
Karmen Kidess: I’m 16 years old, and I’m a student at SJS school. Making something out of nothing is my game. I've always loved to make my own stuff and my own DIYs. I often spend my free time exploring the world of technology, and...
The team is conformed by students from the "José Alonso y Trelles" high school, located in Tala, a small town in Uruguay. The students have been trained by Plan Ceibal in key competences such as robot assembly from technological waste, 3D design, modeling and printing, construction...
"We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves." – Ken Goldberg Why robots? Because robotics is the future, if we all put our minds together then we can create a robot that at least on a theoretical level can solve a problem that is affecting...
The Dominican Republic Robotics team is founded in the passion for STEM and dedicated to encourage young Dominican minds into thinking critically and the benefits of the proper use of technology and how it is possible to have fun and learn at the same time. The...
Team Ivory Coast has 7 seasoned representatives coming from similar backgrounds. Ivory coast is a very dynamic country in West Africa where everyone is welcomed to grow and share opportunities. Families live happy with each other with no quarrels or conflicts between tribes, and the...
We are a group of 13- to 16-year-old students from Acahualinca, a community surrounding the Managua city dump in Nicaragua. For the past five years, we have benefitted from quality education at Fabretto’s Education Center, “San Francisco.” Through Fabretto, we have received free technical training,...
The Democratic Republic of Congo. A country located at the center of Africa, covered by flora and fauna where the people live a decent and beautiful life. This country borders a majestic river and is full of gigantic minerals. A colorful country with enormous cultural and artistic...
We are TILT, and we’ll represent Brazil on this opening FIRST Global Challenge. This year on Washington-DC we’ll go with four participants, and they are (left to right): Luiz Gabriel (16), captain and programmer, Sofia (14), builder, Nathan (15), programmer, and João Victor (16), spokesperson and...
Team Norway consists of seven students from local upper secondary schools, Thora Storm, Ole Vig and Strinda. Everyone on the team is between 17 and 18 and our mentor Ole Einar is also 19 years old which makes him one of the youngest mentor in...
Togo is a small country in West Africa with capital Lome. High School education here is such that students are introduced to electronics, robotics and architecture to prepare them to be future engineers. We are passionate about STEM and we believe it will open doors...
We are Robo Teens from Nigeria! We are a team of robot enthusiasts, consisting of four boys, three girls ages 15-18, and three coaches. Our team inspiration is based on our goal to make our country great and to better understand the advantages of collaboration...
Team Sweden is made up of nine students from six different schools all around Stockholm, Sweden. Our participants are Victor, Christina, Gustaf, Sophia, Daniel, Mareme, Hugo, Ebba and Axel, with mentor Nina. The team was selected based on their engagement in a training program to become...
Mahmoud Javombo – Team Mentor Mahmoud Javombo is the Program Director, Innovate Salone. Innovate Salone is Global Minimum Inc. flagship program in Sierra Leone that empowers young people by helping them realize their creative potentials using the Innovation Challenge platform. Mahmoud holds a BA degree from the...
We are from the city of David ,Province of Chiriqui, Republic of Panama; our robotics club belongs to the I.P.T Arnulfo Arias High School. The Club was created ten years ago. Our club has participated in many national and international robotic events. Now, we are...
Team Malawi comprises highly motivated five boys and 3 girls, some of whom are in high school while others are in their first year of college. The team has interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Nyasha Mpinda is a grade 10 student in high school....
Namaste! From Team India!!! We are Team India – we represent diversity, equality and resilience! We have given the world ahimsa, yoga and chess. Team India is represented by 7 enthusiastic and spirited teenagers and an energetic mentor from the bustling metropolis of Mumbai. Collectively our Team has...
The National Learning Service SENA was born in 1957 as a pillar for the professional training of all Colombians. At present, it leads the SENNOVA Technological Development and Innovation Research System, programs such as TecnoAcademia, which allows young people from vulnerable areas who are attending...
Founded in 2014 by Janet Fofang , Engineering teacher, co- founder of Tassah Academy, WeTech Africa Leadership council member, TechWomen Alumnae, 2016 winner of the Richard Newton ABIE Educator Award. STEM Clubs have made partnerships with 8 schools to form after school programs for hands...
Team Austria consists of three students from the HTL Weiz, which is an engineering-focused secondary school. There, they are enrolled in the electrical engineering program. Jeremia, Jakob, and Wolfgang started working in the field of robotics when they first met in the beginning of school year 2016/17. Together, they...
Viet Nam Robotics Team 2017 consists of 7 members and 1 mentor, who are core members of the FPT high school robotics club. Established at the end of November, 2016 with 15 members, until the beginning of January, 2017 the club now features 25 students,...
Team RukuBot comes from the land of Himalayas in Nepal. It is a team of six students from two nearby high schools in a rural community called Pharping, which is roughly 15 miles south of the capital city, Kathmandu. First Global is the first time...
Team Iceland students all come from the same school "Tækniskólinn Reykjavík" we have never taken part in a competition in robotics but in many occasions my students have shown there robots and programming skills at IT seminars in Reykjavik. Teakniskolinn Reykjavik is the only school that has robotics as a part of there curriculum, that...
Hello, we are Team Hong Kong! A group of 4 young men, all come from the same school, King’s College, a male school with a long history. Some of us have been participated in many kinds of robotic competitions, while some of us are novices in...
From left to right: Kyösti Blinnikka (team mentor), Théo Friberg, Laura Saarhelo, Simo Naatula Team Finland consists of three students of Olari High School, which is specialising mathematics and sciences. Olari High School is situated in Espoo, the second largest city in Finland after the country's capital...
We are team China. This is a team full of various personalities and characteristics. Seven teenagers from different schools in different ages come together and work as a single team. Some of us haven’t seen each other until this cooperation. Most of our team members are...
Team Burkina Faso is comprised of 2 travelling students and 1 mentor. The mentor is Mamadou SANGARE, professor of electronics and industrial informatics. Mamadou has been teaching electronics at Aube Nouvelle University since 2004. SAWADOGO T. Boris Martial (Team Captain), is a student in network technology...
A Kingdom that has a total area of 765 square kilometers (295 square miles) making it the third smallest nation in Asia after the Maldives and Singapore. In 2011, the school ventured in the field of robotics and ever since we have assembled a strong team to compete in Worldwide competitions. Since then,...
They are a group of Syrian refugee youth from 16 to 19 years old who never gave up hope and ambition despite the difficult circumstances they faced after fleeing to Lebanon. Some of them were able to continue their education at the Lebanese schools, while others are still...
Talented Youth Academy (TYA) was established in 2012under license No 57 of ministry of technical education and vocational training. We are specialized in exploring talented students in different fields. TYA consists of six departments in different fields of skills that care gifted students. These six departments...
The team is long-term fan and participant of robot creation and challenges. We are inspired by doing inventive and useful things with robots, being on the today’s edge of technologies. Knowledge and experience we get from robotics significantly improve our ability for the future challenges. It...
Senegal is a mix of the new and the old. While the capital city, Dakar, has many modern conveniences, it is also plagued by poverty and contamination. The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capital is right in the middle of African nations; at $945...
The strength of any strong state is its students. Students can turn the situation of that country, when we talk about Pakistan this statement becomes more powerful because students contribute their part in the success and development of this nation. Students are national treasures in Pakistan...
Tech Impact Roboticx4004 is a Libyan high school aged team, that consists of highly motivated, and passion-driven tech individuals with extraordinary practical skills, we are diverse and experienced team, led by Tech Impact founder Kusai Fteita, our team have such an abundant amount of support...
This unique is team from Pleebo City, Maryland County, Liberia, West Africa. The team represents Liberia and is comprised of students from five major schools from Pleebo Sodoken District, namely: Pleebo High School, St. Francis High School, Central Site High School, Jasper Grant Methodist High...
Princess Rahma team aims at exploring new exciting technology, enhancing our critical thinking skills, and experiencing the field of robotics by participating in prestigious global competitions. Unlike many other teams, our team has many challenges as we are a public school in Jordan with very...
Team Hungary -- DLSBrainstorms_roboteam „Do extra-terrestrials exist?” – the Nobel Prize winning Italian nuclear physicist, Enrico Fermi, was once asked. „Of course” – Fermi answered – „They are among us, but they call themselves Hungarians." Our Hungarian-English Dual Language School (DLSB) in Balatonalmádi provides students with an...
We are six technology-interested and open-minded students who will represent Germany at the FIRST Global Challenge 2017 in Washington. Our school, the Königin-Katharina-Stift, is located in Stuttgart, a city in the south-west of Germany famous for its mechanical industry. Our experiences with robotics date back to...
Robotics in Cyprus is a fairly new area but it is quickly increasing in popularity with younger generations. In 2015, a team of 10 students was assembled to introduce robotics to them. After one year of training using the LEGO MINDSTORMS platform the students formed...
We are the team of Uzbekistan, a country in the Central Asia famous for being on the Ancient Silk Road, but also for the current promising young generation. We are here to show our creativity and problem solving skills by using technology. FIRST Global is a...
Team USA loves meeting and working with other teams from around the world, and we are so excited to be a part of the inaugural FIRST Global competition! Our team is made of two members from Schrödinger’s Hat, a high-school robotics team from Everett, Washington,...
The team is from Emirati students are coming from different schools/states (some of them have to drive 2 hours to reach the center). They gather every Saturday at the Sheikh Hamdan Foundation to enjoy STEM and prepare for the FLL championship. The boys and girls are passionate about...
We are Urfa STEM Team from Şanlıurfa, Turkey who feel honored to be part of the FIRST Global in Washington. We’re driven by the idea that the best product is born from the best cooperation. We will be racing in FIRST Global to cooperate with...
We come from Chinese Taipei, a beautiful island in Pacific Ocean. We’re all senior high school students. Some of us like music. Some of us like dancing. But all of us like robots very much. We are very happy to have this opportunity to join...
Team Mighty Minds is a team of young kids that come from various backgrounds. They are all passionate about robotics. They have adopted the following approach to challenges; “We only see the objective, the obstacle must give way”. These kids have participated in various robotics...
Seychelles is considered to be one of the youngest and smallest nations on the planet. This beautiful island state is found 4 degrees south of the equator and enjoys a tropical climate. Our school Beau-Vallon Secondary is located on the North Western Coast of the main...
The Portuguese team is made up of four students who know each other and work enthusiastically together for a long time. They come from the best school in the whole world, Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Serafim in S. João da Madeira, Portugal! Rúben (17) and Rui...
There is one aspect that would define today’s Malaysian youths; their affinity among one another. Transcending the difference brought upon the diverse mix of race and cultures from the country’s history, they practically thrive off the unique benefits that each culture brings. The youths are...
This year, Madagascar is making history by participating for the very first time ever at the FIRST Global Challenge in Washington DC, this coming July. This young team of one supergirl and five guys has strong backgrounds in computer science, telecom and electronics. Like most Malagasy...
The Al ru'ya Robotics Team was established on November 2006. There are 6 team members. Al u'ya robotics team participated in Botball competitions for 11 continuous years and FLL competition one time. The team won the first place in the Botball competition a few times. They...
The Innovate Kenya Robotics team comprises David, Sam, Baraka and Lewis. All of the team members are rock star problem solvers as they are recent winners of the National Innovation Challenge here in Kenya where youth compete to come up with the most innovative ideas...
The Iraqi team consists of Nawres Arif, Hussein Hussein, Yassir Bassel, Mohammed Al-Shati, Ali Al-Behadili, and Mohammed Al-Battat Nawres is the design and electronics mentor of the team. After graduating with a bachelor degree in pharmacy, Nawres left his academic path and founded the Science Camp-the...
Robotics is fascinating as well as challenging subject to Technonatura students. Beginning in 2005, the school bought a number of Fischer Technic Robotic kits for its students to learn assembling and programming robots. After that, we entered the local competition. In 2008 and 2009, TechnoNatura’s...
The remote town of Camasca, Intibuca, on the dry corridor of Honduras, Central America is the last place anyone would expect to find a First Global Robotics team. Here, water runs every other day for an hour, if it runs at all. Here, electricity, when...
Equatorial Guinea is a beautiful and fast developing island in Central Africa with a diverse culture. Among other institutions in the country is the Nigeria Equatorial Guinea International School (NEGIS), which is an establishment composed of students with very sociable character. They are also easily...
Team Cambodia comes from two public high school in Siem Reap Province, both sponsored by the organization Caring for Cambodia (CFC). There are 4 girls and 2 boys who are all studying in Grade 11. We are so happy to have the opportunity to join...
The core of this team that unites its members and motivates them to overcome challenges and win is their home country: Bangladesh. As a developing country, Bangladesh has improved in many sectors. One of them is technology. Through software, hardware, electronics and robotics, Bangladesh is...
Armenia’s team is represented by students from the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies. TUMO is a free of charge after-school program for students ages 12-18. The TUMO program teaches students the latest in both the tech and art fields. Teens can learn from a range of...
We are the first robotic team with The Digital Citizen Fund (DCF) based in Herat, Afghanistan. DCF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization created to empower youth and young women in developing countries to gain access to technology and obtain the necessary skills to succeed in...
In the 21st century, it is becoming increasingly clear that the global challenges we face as a planet will require global, STEM inspired solutions from the lowest valleys to the highest mountains across the world. That is probably why the first news article to be...
Team Zimbabwe is comprised of energetic, enthusiastic and highly creative young achievers. These boys and girls have one thing in common: a passion to build and create. They are driven by a desire to change the world in their own little but impactful way. From...
Makerere University is the most dominant university in Uganda and one of the best institutions of higher learning in Africa. Since 2011, the University has been organizing the Science and Technology Challenge (STIC) in high schools throughout the Uganda. Each year the schools identify students...
We are seven motivated Tunisian guys who dream of making change in our country. We feel so lucky to find such mentors who motivate us all the time to be the best for Tunisia and share the same passion with us. We are so proud...
Tanzania is the 13th largest country in Africa, the country is located in the Eastern Africa within the African great lakes (Lake Victoria and Tanganyika). The country is well known of having more tourist attraction, three of them being among the seven wonders of the...
The RoboCaspers, from Spain, is a team of four teenagers fascinated with robotics and new technologies. Since 2012, we have invested part of our spare time participating in robotics competitions. Our experience as a team led us to travel around Spain and to participate at WRO...
Each and every member of Team Korea shares a passion for robotics: the entire process of designing, engineering, and assembling smart robots to achieve challenging tasks and problems excites us to no end. Not surprisingly, our members include presidents of school engineering and math clubs,...
The Slovak team consists solely of highly determined hard-working students of Galileo School, Bratislava. They are ready to combine their great interest for robotics with quick learning skills and dedication to improve for Robotic Games. The team members are: Viliam, two Martins, Andrej, Branislav, Lukáš,...
We are Team Serbia! We feel very fortunate to have this opportunity and thank FIRST Global for it. Our true mission is to teach the students skills such as communication, machinery, programming, safety, marketing, engineering, and social skills, which will help them in the future....
Team Rwanda is made up of 7 students from seven different schools and one Technical mentor. Régis Aimé RUGERINYANGE from lycee de Kigali Paola IKIREZI from Excella high...
We are the Legionaires The Legionaires is made up of seven members from different FLL teams from the Philippines. Our members are handpicked from a pool of competent students --- through our diversity we work as one to help each other and compliment one’s weakness with...
We are the team from New Zealand. We are very excited to be participating in the First Global Competition. We are a group of students from the Clendon area in Auckland City. We are all new learners of Robotics and are really looking forward to...
Namibia team members are high school students from the Delta Secondary School, Windhoek. The member names are Anthony Lee, Chauncey Mouton, Nicole Brendell, Marcel Lang, Wilbard Mbenzi, Dorian Hövelmann and Ufuoma Akpokiniovo. Anthony Lee (17) has passion for Mathematics and Physical Science including computer related...
The American School of Tangier’s FIRST Robotics team is composed of students who have never received any formal robotics instruction. In 2013, the IT manager, Aziz Laroussi, who will act as a mentor for the team, first exposed students to robotics. After discovering a small...
We are coming from Montenegro, a country well known for its wild beauty. Middle Electrotehnical Vocational School Vaso Aligrudić is situated in the center of this beautiful country, in the capital city, Podgorica. From this High School, whose principal is Veselin Picuric, 3 great competitors...
From the country that inspired the Mayans to invent the zero, welcomed the western world and mixed its inventions with theirs, and now integrates the new technologies with its own discoveries; Mexico’s robotics team incorporates students from two FIRST robotics teams: Panteras from Mexico City, and...
Mali has the strong ambition to master the technologies of the modern world and to put them to work to improve our country. We are a country with a very deep sense of social solidarity. Each member of our team is coming to FIRST Global...
The Student Technology Club (STC) was first established in October 2014 at Rafik Hariri University in Lebanon to promote student learning and to provide all members with the opportunity to improve their skills in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) by engaging them in contemporary...
Team Latvia is an exciting group of young people based in the town of Piņķi, near the capital city of Rīga. They are brought together by a love for tackling new challenges. Although they are all new to robotics, the team has received guidance from...
We are robotics team from the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Laos. We have totally 6 members attending FIRST Global robotic game in Washington DC this coming July. The games provide us experiences to improve ourselves and it is a pleasure to have opportunity...
We are a team of 7 inspired students who are truly engaged in technology and robotics. Today, robotics is developing at an incredible rate and will surely change the world. For us, we are not only interested to design, build, and program robots, but also...
Jamaica's FIRST Global Championship team is still being formed. It will be comprised of students from 4 secondary schools located in Kingston, the country's capital. The schools are Immaculate Conception High School, Kingston College, St George's College and Jamaica College. (JC). The main organizer and sponsor...
The RoboSpecialists are an award-winning robotics club, based at the city of Xanthi in Greece. Established in 2012, our club has grown from a handful of students whose dream was to learn how to build robots and program their movements. As the years went by,...
We are group of high school girls from diverse backgrounds with a common goal, to lead the future. We are the next generation of tech entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists and mathematicians who will change the world. We believe science, technology, engineering and mathematics are the building...
The Ethiopian team for the FIRST GLOBAL Robotic Olympics game held in Washington, DC has been assembled mainly because of the dedication the selected contenders have exuded all of their lives, coupled with such an amazing opportunity to present the world of their undeniable potential....
The Estonian Robotics team was formed in 2011. We initially began with LEGO robots, FLL competitions, Robotex (the largest robotics competition in Estonia). A few years after we started, we went to Robot Challenge in Vienna (one of the largest robotics competitions in Europe) with...
The Robota High School team was born last year with the participation of Robota in FIRST Robotic Competition, FRC. We started to prepare our students in different groups, choosing them by the abilities they have to be part of the electrical, mechanics and programming portions. This...
Greetings from Croatia! We are a small team of 2 boys (Leon and Matej) and 1 girl (Ema) and we’ve just recently entered the world of national competitions. We are students of high schools which specialize in mechanics, electronics, programming and mathematics. Our dream is to learn...
The Team Chile for the FIRST Robotics Olympics brings together high school students from various schools and backgrounds – all of us driven by passion for technology and robotics. Our team’s vision is to support the development of education, especially STEAM education, throughout the country...
The team from Burundi is composed of students selected from different schools of Bujumbura and one mentor. The team from Burundi is very strong due to its way of selection whereby we chose the best students from the best schools. The students are motivated to win...
We are the Bulgarian team - Rada, Niki Stanchev, Niki Sotirov, Pepi and Zaki. Rada is a 16-year-old girl who is studying in the French Language School. She is fluent in French and also she is very good at anything she starts. Niki Stanchev is a...
Stela Ugrinčić: I enjoy spending my free time with friends and family, without our smartphones and social networks. I like reading books, especially novels and I like music. I've been playing flute for 9 years and I think that music is the best way to express your emotions...
We are from Sucre - Bolivia and We are passionate about robotics. All of us are learning robotics since 2014. The members of our team won the Bolivian Olympics of Robotics in 2016 and the Bolivian Computer Science Olympics in 2015. Our team has been honored...
We are the Team Benin. Representing our country at FIRST Robotics competition is an exciting experience for us. We are so excited to discover how to put robots parts together and discover how robots work. We are inspired to collaborate with other teams who will...
The QLA Pineapples (Team Australia) are both an FTC and a FRC team based in Brisbane Australia. We are students from 2 large Lutheran Schools, St Peter’s Lutheran College and Grace Lutheran College but we come together around our love for Robotics and all things...
The Algerian Robotics Team is excited to participate for the very first time in a worldwide robotics competition. Primarily composed of high school students, our team hails from across Algeria. We began our robotics journey with Lego Robotics workshops at the Algiers STEAM Center and...
We are a team of Peruvian students who come from “Domingo Savio School” in Arequipa. We share the same special passion for robotics and computers, and through this hobby we can express our creativity in a ludic way. We only have seven official team members traveling...