Fluid Power Journal

Aqua Adventure<span style="font-size:50%;vertical-align:super;">SM</span> Registration is Open!

Get pumped for the FIRST® LEGO® League Jr. 2017/2018 season. In the AQUA ADVENTURESM Challenge, more than 40,000 children will navigate the uncharted waters …

<i>FIRST</i> Students Offer Helping Hands – Literally – to Those in Need

Most eighth grade students spend their lunch breaks eating a sandwich or snacking on a burrito. However, FIRST Tech Challenge Team 6914 “Charging Chaos” …

<i>FIRST</i> STRONGHOLD Revealed Amid Much Fanfare

The 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition game FIRST STRONGHOLDSM was launched on January 9 to a crowd of more than 1,000 people at Southern New Hampshire University …

New Strategic Alliances

FIRST announced new alliance collaborations with three organizations: Alpha Omega Epsilon, Electronics Component Industry (ECIA) Association, and Sigma Phi …

<i>FIRST</i> Announces Scholarship Program Milestone

$25 Million Available to High School Students; Nearly 200 Providers Offer College Scholarship Opportunities to FIRST Alumni FIRST® announced a milestone in …

Robotics: The Only High School Sport Where Every Kid Can Go Pro

FIRST® Builds Momentum for Robotics as Official Extracurricular Sports Activity; Texas Joins Growing List of States to Sanction Robotics Program as Official …

“Queens for a Day” – Junior <i>FIRST</i> LEGO League Team Welcomed at White House

Eight-year-old Natalie Hurley joined Junior FIRST LEGO League (Jr.FLL) to “build with LEGO” and “meet cool people.” What she got was so much more. Last …

<i>FIRST®</i> RECYCLE RUSH<sup>SM</sup> 2015 Robotics Game Unveiled

Inventor and FIRST® Founder Dean Kamen launched the 2015 FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) season with the kickoff of a new robotics game called RECYCLE …

“Spare Parts” Movie Debuts in Theaters Featuring Robots Built by <i>FIRST</i> Teams

The stars are aligning for science and engineering as a new movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis, George Lopez, Carlos PenaVega, and Marisa Tomei about a …

Partnering for a Strong Workforce

Did you know that NFPA has developed a Roadmap to Building a Strong Workforce? It outlines a number of ways NFPA members can help: Be a guest speaker at a …