STEM is the new Superbowl: says FIRST Global Challenge’s mastermind

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DUBAI, 26th October, 2019 (WAM) — Masterminded by Dean Kamen, the third FIRST Global Challenge being hosted in Dubai has brought more than 1,500 students from 191 countries together to invent robotics that can tackle marine and ocean-life problems At one time, technologies invented by Dean Kamen was responsible for all of the world’s dialysis machines and 80 percent of the world’s insulin pumps. The 68-year-old inventor, technologist and serial entrepreneur from New York is not afraid of taking on humanity’s big challenges. And his appetite for changing the world is not abating, as he brings his brainchild, FIRST Global Challenge, to Dubai this week.

The FIRST Global Challenge is the annual Olympics-style competition that invites students aged 14-18 from across the globe to invent and master robots that will compete in a series of trials and events that can address, and potentially offer answers to the biggest challenges facing the planet today. This year’s event seeks to address the theme of “Ocean Opportunities”. A series of heads-to-head events have been created to replicate how technologies would be used to clean up the oceans using the tech developed by the students’ inventions.

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