FIRST GLOBAL Robotics Challenge 2018 in Mexico City - Mexico

After the successful inaugural FIRST Global games of 2017, 161 teams traveled to Mexico City to be part of the 2018 FGC STEM and Innovation Robotics games.
 

FIRST Global's mission 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'.

Foundation Young Help Suriname (YHS), prepared and trained the 2018 Robotics Team from Suriname for the FGC Mexico games.

On day 2 our team supported at least 2 other teams with improvements to their bots. The spirit of cooperation and networking, building relationships was present and young hearts were inspired with a unforgettable experience. Suriname's future generation was exposed to knowledge, experience and resources on an international level and the already laid basis for opportunities to collaborate and work were strenghtened and grown. As we expand and continue our STEM building and empowering activities in Suriname, we believe that Suriname youth will be in the STEM teams developing innovative robotics engineering solutions in partnerships in the near future.