14 Abr Homenaje al legado de los mentores ejemplares de FIRST Global mediante la creación y financiación del Premio Margaret y Woodie Flowers a la Mentoría

FIRST Global Founder and Chairperson of the FIRST Global Executive Board, Dean Kamen, and long-term FIRST Global mentor and supporter, Margaret Flowers, announce the creation of the Margaret and Woodie Flowers Mentorship Award. This award will be presented annually to an exemplary mentor of a FIRST Global Challenge team. The honored mentor will be awarded up to $10,000 to cover his or her team’s travel to the FIRST Global Challenge for the following year. In addition, ten nominated mentors will be named as Finalists for this award and all nominated mentors will be invited to attend a reception during the annual FIRST Global Challenge to celebrate their work and to provide them an opportunity to connect and make plans for future collaboration.

Recipients of the 2025 FIRST Global Challenge Outstanding Mentor Award stand on-stage in Panama City, Panama

In contributing to this award, Dean Kamen noted that, “Margaret and Woodie Flowers are and were an inspiration, not only intellectually, but personally, ethically and emotionally. They have worked tirelessly so that young people throughout the world will master the universal language of science, technology, engineering and math. Through this common platform, teams collaborate with one another across all boundaries to solve our common problems. It is my honor to help fund this important award in recognition of Margaret and Woodie’s contributions, and to inspire all our FIRST Global mentors to follow in their enormous footsteps.”

“I am delighted not only to be honored by this award, but also to be able to participate with Dean in the funding of this award,” stated Margaret Flowers. She commented further, “Like Dean, who himself has worked tirelessly to mentor our young people, I hope this award will inspire the FIRST Global mentors to join the FIRST Woodie Flowers Award winners and do the important work of guiding our young people to lead meaningful lives and work with students from all around the world to combat poverty, food scarcity, disease, social and economic inequalities, ignorance and to promote peace.”