FIRST Technology Challenge

As many of you were preparing for the holiday season in 2016 and feeling one way or another just after the U.S. Presidential election, FIRST ® launched Invisible Inequities —a free, online training module to grapple with bias and help create more diverse, inclusive and equitable teams. FIRST Diversity and Inclusion has been collaborating with NAPE to design a training series for Coaches, Mentors, Volunteers, Partners and other key stakeholders who work directly with students. Invisible Inequities is the first of three online modules offered and help participants: ·          Identify examples of cultural stereotypes and bias and how they affect equitable participant engagement on FIRST teams, ·          Reflect on differences between their team demographics and their community demographics, and ·          Apply strategies to recruit participants from underrepresented and underserved groups. So, is it possible to be totally bias-free as you are recruiting team members and interacting

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 .