About FIRST Global

FIRST Global organizes an annual international robotics competition designed to ignite a passion for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) among youth worldwide. By bringing together high school students from over 190 countries, FIRST Global aims to inspire leadership, foster collaboration across cultures, and encourage innovation to address global challenges.

Purpose

The purpose of FIRST Global is to make FIRST global.

Founded by Dean Kamen, FIRST Global nurtures cross-cultural communication and cooperation among high school students around the world, preparing them to collectively tackle the world’s most pressing challenges and devise solutions that improve the quality of life for all.

The annual FIRST Global Challenge is the key mechanism for accomplishing these goals.  It brings together youth from nearly every nation to design, build, and program robots to compete in a collaborative Olympics-style robotics event, themed around an issue of global importance.