The FIRST Global Challenge

The FIRST Global Challenge is an olympics-style, international robotics competition that takes place in a different country each year.

Welcome to the sport where everyone can go PRO

WHAT IF WE CELEBRATED STEM THE WAY WE CELEBRATE ATHLETICS?

The FIRST Global invites each nation to send a team to build and program a robot to compete. Teams work together to complete tasks in a game themed around one of the greatest challenges facing our planet, including the 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering, in an effort to foster understanding and cooperation among the youth of the world as they use their abilities to solve the world’s problems. The challenges we face as a global society need to be solved, and the next generation can meet the task — together.

2025 Event

PANAMÁ CITY 🇵🇦

The 2025 FIRST Global  Challenge

From 29 Oct-1 Nov 2025, students from 190+ countries will unite in Panama City, Panama, a global hub that bridges oceans and connects continents, making it the perfect location for students from around the world to tackle critical challenges through STEM to promote a healthy planet.

FIRST Global believes that by making science and technology as exciting as any other sport, we can inspire the world’s two billion youth to pursue STEM fields and be the leaders who collectively solve our planet’s most pressing problems.

🍃 Eco Equilibrium Theme

This year’s theme challenges FIRST Global teams of students from around the world to collaboratively innovate to maximize biodiversity and protect the incredible variety of life that sustains us all. From rainforests to coral reefs, the health of us and our planet depends on it!

🍃Eco Equilibrium Robotics Challenge

In the Eco Equilibrium game, student teams navigate their robots through a richly diverse, simulated world to carefully restore habitats, maintain ecological balance, and protect vulnerable species, emphasizing the delicate systems that support our planet and the critical role innovation plays in their survival.

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Our 2025 Team

The FIRST Global Challenge is a truly international robotics event, with nations around the world welcomed to participate. Our spirit of openness is a core FIRST Global value, grounded in our belief that while politics often divides, technology unites. We seek to bring together youth from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences and inspire and motivate them to become the leaders and innovators of the future, working together to build a better world.

Want to support the team? View The FIRST Global Support page