News & Stories 

We are grateful for the leadership and careful response of Rhode Island FIRST Tech Challenge, The Wheeler School and FIRST as all strive to support our community through the events of December 13, 2025, in Providence, Rhode Island

From classroom to career, Connecticut’s future innovators (and FIRST programs!) were on full display at the 2nd Annual Connecticut Manufacturing Innovation Forum!

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.

NE FIRST returned to The Big E for our weekend-long robotics showcase featuring all FIRST programs together on one fairground, April 2–5!

Our last REEFSCAPE district event to close out its results was also at our only venue that hosted a qualifying event EVERY year since 2014!

What a weekend!! Starting off with snow didn't slow down our first ever UVM District Event. No wonder a Vermont team is called Bad Weather

There are only two qualifying events left in New England...and next week is the NE DCMP! Special thanks to WPI for hosting this district.

The REEFSCAPE season is flying.... or swimming? by SO quickly! Week 4 in New England featured two of our collegiate venues in NH and MA.

Just three weeks before DCMP, teams at the URI District Event met a special guest, one who happens to be a namesake of a 2025 Division!

The Western NE District Event hosted 35 teams at WNEU! We'll be 20m west in just TWO weeks for the New England District Championship!

Heading way up the coast to our most northeastern event, we returned to The Colisée in Maine for our 8th annual Pine Tree District Event!

Only two miles from their own beach, robots made waves in Revere! Revere High School hosted their 7th iteration of the Greater Boston Event

What better city to host a water game than Waterbury? Our first event in Connecticut this season hosted 37 teams from CT, MA and even NH!

The Southern Maine District Event was incredibly special, and not just because it was the first time hosting an FRC qualifier in this venue.