News & Stories 

NE FIRST is bringing robots back to WaterFire in Providence again this year! We are looking for FIRST teams of any type to demo robots and talk about FIRST and STEM with us on Saturday, October 24, 2026.

Many thanks and congratulations to the 6 teams who made it out to the Robot in 3 Weeks Scrimmage at Deerfield Academy yesterday; we had 6 working robots! It was great to see the game in live action.

Updated schedule, event payment link, and Nov. 15 scrimmage information!

Hope your first full week with BIOBUZZ has led to many strategy discussions and many ideas to chase for your robots! After this week, expect a team email blast every other Monday.

If you are someone who would love to volunteer regularly for MA FTC, there is now a form to gather contact info in one place for post-high school volunteers to receive details about local events.

Happy Kickoff! It was so exciting to see many of you in person again, hear about your experiences at the live kickoff events on Saturday, and watch everyone take in BIOBUZZ.

To close out a FIRST season with as many high tides and deep currents as the ocean, thousands of students, mentors, volunteers, sponsors and friends traveled to Houston, Texas for the FIRST Championship

As the only Premier Event scheduled before the FIRST Championship, New England had a unique opportunity to showcase our unity as a geographic region, celebrate our FIRST Tech Challenge Teams, give competing teams a taste of the FIRST Championship Experience potentially closer to home, and be a guiding light for the Premier Events to come.

On July 31 and August 1, 2021, FIRST Tech Challenge teams from around the world gathered at the Maryland Tech Invitational (referred to...