News From FIRST RGV (main website)

• Interview with Maria – Dean’s List Winner
  “I am not going to lie, the first day I thought I was in the wrong class because I was the only girl. I was like terrified, Cortez said. “But, I said, okay, I will stick with this.” Cortez is pleased she did because that first class focusing on science, technology, engineering and math, led […]
• We Have a Dean’s List Winner
  In 2020, the Rio Grande Valley has finally earned its first Dean's List Winner with FIRST robotics. Congratulations to the winner and their coaches, administrators, team members and families. The post We Have a Dean’s List Winner appeared first on .
• Case for using FIRST in the classroom
  FIRST® has many stories of how it has inspired its members in STEM. Recently I attended the FIRST® World Championships in Detroit and met many of these kids. Their passion and enthusiasm were contagious. Dean Kamen’s famous saying “I don’t use kids to build robots. I use robots to build kids.-” was evident at the […]
• Welcoming Laredo FIRST teams
  The start of the 2019–2020 season of FIRST robotics in South Texas came with an announcement that the Rio Grande Valley community will be adding new members to its family. The group was informed that Webb County and Laredo will be joining the “South Texas Region” for both the FIRST Lego League and FIRST Tech […]