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Student Competition Profile: The FIRST Community and Team Robotics

Preparing Youth for Tech of Tomorrow

March 30, 2023 · Student Competition Profile: The FIRST Community and Team Robotics

PTC’s Onshape Teams Up With FIRST For Design Competition

April 17, 2020 · FIRST, a nonprofit that offers robotics competitions for students primary/secondary students, has partnered with PTC for a virtual design competition.

Stand Behind STEM/STEAM Programming

May 1, 2017 · STEM projects build on the natural curiosity of children while teaching the scientific method, engineering, physics and biology, and let kids try on careers at an early age.

Student Competitions Provide an Out of Classroom Engineering Curriculum

March 1, 2017 · Student competitions prepare up-and-comers with the hands-on experience necessary to meet the challenges of next-generation engineering.

FIRST: Not Just Robots

February 2, 2017 · According to FIRST’s evaluation data, student participants are twice as likely to major in science or engineering.

PTC to Offer ThingWorx to FIRST Robotic Teams for Free

January 6, 2015 · The company announced it will be donating PTC ThingWorx software to all FIRST teams in addition to PTC Creo, PTC Mathcad, and PTC Windchill software.

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