Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers: K–12 and Beyond

Aug 30, 2017 By Nancy Boyer, Director of Research & Evaluation, FIRST

The following article was originally published by the IEEE Computer Society in the July 2017 issue of Computer magazine as par...

FIRST Newsletter – Fall, 2016 – Girls in STEM Take Center Stage on “The Fosters" | FIRST

When actress Emma Dumont (“Aquarius,” “Bunheads”), a FIRST Alumna and Mentor, arrived on the set of Freeform’s family drama “The Fosters” in June, she felt like she was at a real FI...

A team of predominantly black students (three pictured above) from Cleveland, Ohio have just made history by winning the 25th annual FIRST Robotics Competition World Championship.

The students are attendants at Cuyahoga Community College’s Youth Technology Academy in Cl...

Afrofuturism is a kind of artistic expression that centers Blackness in the sphere of all things futuristic, using elements ranging from fantasy to magical realism to explore everything to do with the Diaspora. You can hear it in the music of Janelle Monae’s Archandroi...

HU Robotics team preparing to compete in Robotics Olympiad

Hampton, Va. – Hampton University (HU) is the lead university of the recently extended Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) Alliance grant. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded...