News & Stories 

The Western NE District Event returned to Western New England University for the 6th time, welcoming teams from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire. Special thanks to our event chair Dr. Christian Salmon for introducing incoming University president Dr. Joseph Hartman and to both for welcoming our teams on Saturday morning! Local media had great coverage of the entire weekend. See our Press Room for the articles!

Returning this year after a brief hiatus, the North Shore District Event welcomed teams from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania to Reading Memorial High School! The added FIRST LEGO League Explore Festival was a special afternoon for everyone who participated and cheered them on.

The 12th annual Granite State District Event brought its name to Bedford High School, where the Southern NH District Event was held in 2017 and 2019! Hosting 34 teams from New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts, we saw tons of excitement in this great venue.

The 9th annual Pine Tree District looked familiar, yet distinct from Pine Trees of the past! We returned to last year's new venue, Falmouth High School, to host the only FRC qualifier in Maine, where tradition holds that the event will be called Pine Tree. Featuring almost all of the Maine teams, as well as some visitors from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut, this event was fortunate to be locally sponsored by the Maine Army National Guard and the Maine Space Cons

The 2026 FIRST Robotics Competition game, REBUILT, is no longer a thing of the past! New England kicked off the competition season with qualifiers in Massachusetts and Maine, hosting 50 teams during Week 1. The inaugural Minuteman District Event was so much fun, it never wanted to end!

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!