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HBO Spotlights “a Sporting Event Unlike any Other”

Award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien, a correspondent for HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” sat down with FIRST® Founder Dean Kamen and visited FIRST teams and events around the U.S. to find out how FIRST is recruiting the next generation of problem solvers, making robotics “a sporting event unlike any other.” Check out the full “Real Sports” segment, now available on YouTube. 

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FIRST Lessons for any Classroom

FIRST President Don Bossi explores three lessons from FIRST programs that can be applied to every classroom to spark a lifelong love of learning and exploration.

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Team FSINGENIUM Wins the Global Innovation Award

The 2018 Global Innovation Award celebrated the solutions FIRST® LEGO® League teams invented to improve the human water cycle during the HYDRO DYNAMICSSM season. Team FSINGENIUM from Pamplona, Spain, took the top award — a $20,000 prize — for the HYDROBALL, a tennis-ball-sized water conservation tool that precisely measures how much water is available for crops.

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