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FIRST Robotics

The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. The program is a life-changing, career-molding experience—and a lot of fun. Over 37,525 high-school-aged young people on over 1,501 teams participate in 41 regional events. Teams come from Brazil, Canada, Israel, Mexico, the U.K., Chile, the Netherlands and every U.S. state. The competitions are high-tech spectator sporting events, the result of lots of focused brainstorming, real-world teamwork, dedicated mentoring, project timelines, and deadlines.
 
Colleges, universities, corporations, businesses, and individuals provide scholarships to FIRST participants. Involved engineers experience again many of the reasons they chose engineering as a profession, and the companies they work for contribute to the community while they prepare and create their future workforce. The competition shows students that the technological fields hold many opportunities and that the basic concepts of science, math, engineering, and invention are exciting and interesting.

For the 2008 - 2009 season, BAE Systems has generously provided grant opportunities for interested Hawai`i teams in order to promote attendance at the 2009 Hawai`i State Regional and encourage the recruitment, retention, and advancement of young people through FIRST.

New Funding Opportunities Available