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 FIRST Newsletter: View photos and videos from the 2017 Championship; Plus, learn about team grant opportunities and register your team.

| Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here. FIRST® Newsletter - May 2017 FIRST® NEWS 2017 FIRST® Championship Brings Double the Fun More than 60,000 people attended the 2017 FIRST® Championship Presented by Qualcomm Incorporated, held for the first time across two cities, Houston and St. Louis. It brought together 30,000 students on 1,400 teams from 62 countries – and not to mention more than 1,300 robots – for the world's largest celebration of STEM education. READ MORE, VIEW PHOTOS, & WATCH HIGHLIGHTS » 2017 Crown Suppliers Enable Young Innovators For the 2017 FIRST STEAMWORKS℠ game, the FIRST® Robotics Competition Crown Suppliers helped put the WORKS in STEAMWORKS with in-kind contributions of more than $250,000 worth of goods and services used for the Kit of Parts and/or the playing field. FIRST asked Crown Suppliers to share why they support FIRST. READ MORE » FIRST Student Inventor Presents TED Talk When Ashton Cofer, 14, delivered a TED Talk during Ted-Ed Weekend, the accomplished innovator shared a lesson he learned from nearly a decade of watching and participating in FIRST® LEGO® League: “You can’t have success without failure.” Ashton’s inspiring TED.com video has received more than 700,000 views. READ MORE & WATCH » FIRST TidBITS 📋 Team registration for the 2017-2018 season is now open for all FIRST programs. Check out our streamlined dashboard! REGISTER YOUR TEAM NOW » 💡Congratulations to the 2017 FIRST LEGO League Global Innovation Award Semi-Finalists! Tune in on June 20 for a live webcast of the ceremony. READ MORE » 💵 Need-based FIRST® Tech Challenge grants are available for new and returning teams – making now the perfect time to sign up for hands-on STEM activities. LEARN MORE » ▶️ Interested in learning more about FIRST Tech Challenge? View the just-released teaser video for the 2017-2018 game, FIRST RELIC RECOVERY℠. WATCH » 📷️ 2017 FIRST Championship St. Louis attendees: Tag yourself in the 360° Fan Photo brought to you by BAE Systems, Boeing, and NVIDIA . VIEW & TAG » ✏️ FIRST Inspire blog: A ninth-grade student shared his thoughts on his FIRST season on the bus ride home from FIRST Championship. READ MORE »  📣 FIRST Chesapeake teams celebrated FIRST at the National Math Festival, held last month in Washington, D.C. Math + robotics = a prime day! READ MORE » 📰 FIRST in the news: Don't miss this inspiring news story on a rookie FIRST Robotics Competition team from remote, 32-student Navajo Mountain High. VIEW »  contact us   \|    firstinspires.org   \|    donate now Has this issue been forwarded to you by a friend? Sign up to subscribe to our email newsletter. OUR VISION: “...to transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology leaders.”— Dean Kamen, Founder FIRST   200 Bedford Street    Manchester  NH   03101    You received this email because you are subscribed to Newsletters from FIRST . Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive.  Unsubscribe from all future emails   |
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