FIRST Programs at The Founders
Posted on 08/26/2017
My incoming twin 7th-grade daughters and I look forward to joining the Founders community in September.
I work for FIRST and was excited to see a vibrant FIRST LEGO League (FLL) and FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) program already in place. I would love to expand to the high school program, FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC), if there is an appetite from students, teachers, and parents. We’ve recently secured state funding to start new teams in NH, which TFA would be eligible for beginning Sept 1 if we wanted a FRC team.
As a non-technical person, I’ve muddled my way through mentoring my daughters’ FLLJr team and tinkered in FLL, but I would be in over my head with FTC without a technical lead.
I am issuing an all-call for parent and teacher mentors to help coach what I am hoping will be an expanding FIRST community at TFA this fall.
Lead technical mentor for FTC (grades 7-12) – I am happy to be the non-tech mentor
2-3 mentors for FRC (grades 9-12), ideally at least one teacher to take advantage of the teacher stipend in the DOE grant
Enjoy the rest of the summer,
Kristi
Corporate and Foundation Relations Manager, FIRST ®
Phone: (603) 666.3906 x 241
Email: [email protected]