FIRST Technology Challenge

     Happy New Year! We hope you are as excited for 2016 as we are here at FIRST Head Quarters . We have been working hard on the World Championship and we want to share some of the awesome things to come based on your feedback from last year's event. Last season, FIRST® tried something new. We modeled the FIRST Championship after the Olympics, with different events housed in different locations, all within one great city. FIRST Robotics Competition was housed at the Edward Jones Dome and at the America’s Center. FIRST Lego League was housed at the America’s Center, FIRST Tech Challenge was housed at the Midway and Grand Ballroom at Union Station , and FIRST Lego League Junior was housed at the Regency Ballroom at Union Station. The pairing of programs was done deliberately – we wanted to give the students from our younger programs a greater opportunity to spend time with, interact with, and learn from the students in our older programs. Planning an event o...

We know you are hankering for more information about World Championship in St. Louis in 2015 . We're hard at work on the details and eagerly planning to ensure our Teams have the best experience possible, so we can't give out too much at this time. Of course, we all know that FIRST Tech Challenge World Championships will be held at the St. Louis Union Station , so we can tell you a little bit more about that. In case you haven't been to Union Station, here's a peek at the venue. Opened in 1894, Union Station was originally a train station to bring under one roof all the various entryways via train into St. Louis. The exterior of the building (top picture) is historic, with beautiful architecture modeled after a walled medieval French city - turrets and stained glass and bricks and fountains and statues, oh my! The interior is equally as majestic, carefully restored and renovated to honor the building's history as a train station while making it accommodate the 21s...