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FIRST Dean's List Award - What it's all about!

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The Dean�s List Award recognizes nominated leaders and ambassadors from every FIRST� Tech Challenge team who exemplify leadership qualities, an entrepreneurial spirit, and are ambassadors of FIRST and FIRST Tech Challenge. The Dean�s List Award began in 2010, when Dean Kamen realized that for FIRST to continue its mission of inspiring youth, he needed leaders who understand and demonstrate the values and ideals of FIRST ; students who will help drive the FIRST movement. Already inspired by their own FIRST involvement, these students ensure that future generations are able to experience the positive impacts of FIRST . Each FIRST Tech Challenge team may nominate up to two students who are in 10 th or 11 th grade that exemplify leadership qualities, an entrepreneurial spirit, and are ambassadors of FIRST and FIRST Tech Challenge. Each FIRST Tech Challenge team should work together to determine which two teammates they feel most deserve to be nominated for the Dean�s List Award. T...

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 .