Woody started speaking from the podium before my dessert fork even touched the caramel covered cube of chocolate in the plate before me. I was among hundreds of “Special Invitee” dinner guests at a banquet celebrating the 25th year of FIRST. FIRST is an organization that promotes science and technology games and contests – mostly involving student-created robots engineered out of anything from sheet metal to Lego blocks. It’s a wonderful group and if you and your child aren’t involved in it, you should be.

Woody Flowers, Dean Kaman and the rest of the FIRST youth supporters, repeated this same mantra before the hall filled with corporate sponsors, university admissions officers and team mentors. “We got that!” ended each different speaker. What FIRST has “got” is a cultural infrastructure that gets kids excited about solving problems across the world.

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