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FIRST in the News

Here you can find special announcements and media coverage about FIRST.

November 16, 2009 on website for Office of the Governor, Rick Perry  
"Texas Gov. Perry Announces State Investment in Robotics Education Programs"  
   
November 19, 2009 in the Boston Globe  
"Father of inventions" by Joan Anderman  
   
November 19, 2009 in the Burlington County Times  
"LEGO offers link to the future" by Ed Moorhouse  
   
November 18, 2009 in NewHampshire.com  
"Building a better bot, FIRST LEGO League tournament introduces elementary and middle school students to real-world engineering" by Julia Ann Weekes  
   
November 18, 2009 in Mass High Tech, the Journal of New England Technology  
"Tech philanthropy brings wave of contributions, volunteers to organizations" by Dann Anthony Maurno  
   
November 17, 2009 in the Herald Banner  
"Putting science first" by Chad Blackshear  
   
November 17, 2009 on CowichanNewsLeader.com  
"Robotic studies inspiring students at Quamichan" by Krista Siefken  
   
October 22, 2009 in the Naperville Sun  
"Building esteem, one LEGO block at a time: Competition fosters imagination, cooperation, education" by Jane Donahue  
   
October 8, 2009 in the St. Louis Beacon  
"SciFest 09: St. Louis to host robotics world championships" by Julia Evangelou Strait  
   
October 8, 2009 in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch  
"Robotics Championships are Coming to St. Louis"  
   
July 19, 2009 in the San Diego Union-Tribune Online  
"Get more kids involved in technology, inventor says" by Dean Calbreath  
   
May 19, 2009 in the Hammond Star  
"High achievers look to college" by Sylvia Schon  
   
April 23, 2009 in Wall Street Journal  
"Building a Better Robot" by Robert P. Crease  
   
April 22, 2009 on Scientific American Blog  
"Robot LUNACY Competition Wraps Up in Atlanta" by Larry Greenemeier  
   
April 20, 2009 on ABC World News Tonight  
"Scientific Sport: Robotics" by Ned Potter  
   
April 18, 2009 on CNN.com  
Breaking Video: "Robots converge on Atlanta"   
   
April 17, 2009 in Popular Mechanics  
"FIRST Robotics Competition 2009 World Championship: PM Reports on the Winning Team from the Georgia Dome" by Logan Ward  
   
April 15, 2009 in the Los Angeles Times  
"Israel turns to robotics to boost students' interest in high-tech industry" by Richard Boudreaux  
   
April, 2009 in O, The Oprah Magazine online  
"The Engineers of the Future" by Sara Sugarman  
   
March 28, 2009 on CNN.com  
"Student Robots Compete" at Connecticut Regional  
   
March 26, 2009 on NBC New York/Around Town  
"Robots Invade Long Island New York"  
   
March 23, 2009 in Scientific American online  
"Teenage Robotics Engineers Unleash Their Creations in LUNACY Battles" by Robert Goodier  
   
March 13, 2009 on Forbes.com  
"Robots And Beyond" by Courtney Boyd Myers  
   
February 27, 2009 on ABC News Now "Ahead of the Curve"  
"Competitive Robotics: Dean Kamen's FIRST program gets kids excited about engineering and science"  View Dean's interview  
   

February 27, 2009 in Baltimore Sun "Inside Ed" Online

 
"Video of Woodlawn robot as team looks back, ahead"  
   
February 18, 2009 in Popular Mechanics  
"Inside FIRST Robotics 2009: Robots are Now Ready to Rumble"  
   
January 7, 2009 in Popular Mechanics  
"Students Race for Lunar Cred in New FIRST Robotics Game"  
   
January, 2009 in AutomationWorld  
"Gracious Professionalism: Take the Challenge" by Gary Mintchell  
   
January 13, 2009 on News8 Austin  
"[FIRST LEGO League] Robots transform learning experience"  
   
January 12, 2009 in Plant Engineering  
"Grainger contributes to FIRST robotics effort"  
   
January 10, 2009 on KVUE News Austin  
FIRST LEGO League Central Texas Championship Tournament  
   
January 9, 2009 in Control Engineering  
"2009 FIRST Robotics Competition: What some young robot designers are thinking"  
   
January 5, 2009 in the Boston Globe Online  
"Kamen kicks off latest robotics competition"  
   
January 5, 2009 on MotionControl.com  
"LUNACY unveiled to 42,000 High-School Students at 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition Game Kickoff"  
   
January 4, 2009 in the Union Leader  
"Kamen response to crisis: A little LUNACY" by Mike Cullity  
   
November 17, 2008 in Washington Post Online  
"Kids Fuse LEGOs and Robotics at Competition" by Michael Alison Chandler  
   
June, 2008 in ROBOT Magazine  
"FIRST Robotics Competition Selects National Instruments CompactRIO for Next-Generation Robot Control System"   
   
March-April, 2008 in Popular Mechanics  
FIRST Robotics 2008 Complete Coverage (with video!)   
   
April 25, 2008 on NPR's Science Friday  
View related videos and listen to the broadcast archive featuring Dean Kamen and a student from winning Alliance team "The ThunderChickens"  
   
March-April, 2008 in the Wall Street Journal Online  

Five-part video series on Team 694 "StuyPulse" by Andy Jordan
Part 1: Building a Bot (posted March 25)
Part 2: Beat the Clock (posted March 26)
Part 3: It's Alive (posted March 27)
Part 4: The Battle Begins (posted March 28)
Part 5: Battling for a Spot in the Championship (posted April 23)

 
   
April, 2008 in Newsweek Online   
   
April 6, 2008 in MAKE online  
"FIRST Robotics Competition Day 1" posted by Marc de Vinck  
"MAKE @ FIRST Day 2" posted by Philip Torrone
 
   
April 6, 2008 on ABCNews.com  
"H.S. Students Play 'Sports' With Robots: Teens Bring Technology Know-How to FIRST Robotics Competition" by Saira Anees  
   
March 27, 2008 in Electronic Design Magazine Online  
"Team Awkward Turtle Takes Second at FIRST" by Daniel Harris  
   
March 27, 2008 in Education Week  
"Competing for Competence" by Andrew Trotter  
   
March 5, 2008 in Popular Mechanics  
"Students Dig in to FIRST Robotics race with Next-Gen Builds" by Jennifer Bogo  
   

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