Discover FIRST Tech Challenge, a youth robotics program where teams practice engineering innovation as they design, build, and program robot to compete.

Starting September 6, 2025, FIRST® Tech Challenge teams will investigate the power of the world’s artifacts and unlock mysteries in a new challenge, DECODE™ presented by RTX.

Official source of event information, results and webcasts from the FIRST FIRST Tech Challenge

FIRST can only hope to achieve our mission of providing life-changing robotics programs that give young people the skills, confidence, and resilience to build a better world with your help.

Explore steps to start a FIRST Tech Challenge team and bring hands-on STEM learning and robotics challenges to your high school or community.

Incorporate hands-on learning, career exploration, and workforce and industry-ready skills into your classroom or after-school curriculum using the FIRST Tech Challenge Class Pack curriculum and …

FIRST Tech Challenge teams design and build a robot using a reusable kit of parts and compete within a common set of game rules to play an exciting field game and complete the specific season challenge.

FIRST Tech Challenge is a robotics program for middle and high school students. It’s way more than building robots, see About the FIRST Tech Challenge and Gracious Professionalism® to see why.

5 days ago · FIRST ® Tech Challenge Blog Find inspiration and information about our program, where students work together to design, build, and program robots to compete in an exciting yearly challenge.

Season List The FIRST Tech Challenge is made up of seasons in which there are events. Please click on a season to view more information and results.