A Message from Our Founder

Some of you have asked questions about an activity called FIRST Global. FIRST Global is a worldwide, Olympic-style, robotic-competition event separate from, but complementary to, FIRST�. It was founded by Dean Kamen, and you can learn more about this from Dean here http://www.firstinspires.org/about/fg. 

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