SURINAME at the FIRST GLOBAL Robotics Challenge 2017
Washington DC - USA

FIRST Global launched the international Robotics games (FIRST Global Challenge - FGC) in 2017. The inaugural games were held in DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC in August.

The mission of FIRST is to inspire science and technology leadership and innovation in young people from all nations in order to increase understanding, impress the importance of cooperation, address the world’s most pressing issues, and improve quality of life for all. The games in general aim to stimulate STEM, innovation and its application in robotics for solving the most pressing challenges of our planet, especially those related to water, energy, security, medicine, food, and education. FIRST stands for 'For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology'. The first game was called H2O Flow and simulated a contaminated river between two villages which team alliances needed to decontaminate while also displaying other 

Foundation Young Help Suriname (YHS), is the local counterpart of FIRST Global in Suriname and enables participation of a team for the annual Robotics games. A team of students ages 14 - 18 are trained and mentored towards the games. By being part of FIRST Global, Suriname's Team is connected to a  network of STEM knowledge, experience and resources across the globe. While we build young local capacity in STEM and Innovation we lay the foundation for future generations to tab into the established resources and contribute to developing innovative robotics engineering solutions in partnerships for the future.