21 Nov DOE: Achieving a Common Goal: Countries Around the World Unite to Feed the Future with STEM Innovation

The U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) joined students from nearly 200 countries as a sponsor of the FIRST Global Challenge, an Olympic-style international robotics event in Athens, Greece.

DOE Co-Sponsors FIRST Global Challenge 2024: Sustainable Food Systems

The challenge? Nations had to send a team to build and program a robot to compete in a game themed around one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century facing our planet: sustainable food production. For the eighth edition of the FIRST Global Challenge, teams gathered at the Panathenaic Olympic Stadium and the Peace and Friendship Stadium to compete under this year’s theme titled “Feeding the Future.”