More Than Just Building Robots

A Global Robotics Community Preparing Young People For the Future Through Team Competitions and STEAM Learning

Learn More About Our Teams & How to Join!

FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION

The 2024-2025 FIRST season, FIRST DIVE, where we’ll be empowering young people to design and build a world of endless possibilities. The future is a place you will create! Learn more through the video below.

Learn More About FIRST Robotics

Our teams are made up of students from grades K-12, and compete as part of FIRST.

Registration starts in late May for the 2025-2026 season.

FIRST^® LEGO LEAGUE EXPLORE
Grades K-3

FIRST LEGO® League Explore introduces science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to children with a yearly challenge based on a different theme and has two main parts, the LEGO model and the Show Me Poster.

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FIRST^® LEGO LEAGUE CHALLENGE
Grades 4-6

In FLL Challenge, friendly competition is at the heart of this League, as teams of students grades 4-6 engage in research, problem-solving, coding, and engineering – building and programming a LEGO robot that navigates the missions of a robot game.

Each yearly challenge is based on a different theme.

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FIRST^®TECH CHALLENGE
Grades 7-8

FIRST Tech Challenge students learn to think like engineers. Teams design, build, and code robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams. Robots are built from a reusable platform, powered by Android technology, and can be coded using a variety of levels of Java-based programming.

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FIRST^® ROBOTICS COMPETITION
Grades 9-12

Our FIRST Robotics Competition Team, under strict rules and limited time and resources, is challenged to build an industrial-sized robot to play a difficult field game in alliance with other teams, while also fundraising to meet their goals, designing a team “brand,” and advancing respect and appreciation for STEM within the local community.

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FACTS ABOUT FIRST

Inspire young people to create innovation solutions through robotics
785K+ students participated in the 2023-2024 season
There are FIRST teams in 28 countries.
81% of FIRST Alumni Declare Majors in STEM
83% of FIRST Alumni have Confidence to Take Leadership Roles in School

Our teams, under the Paradise Teams Umbrella, are based out of the Belmont, MI area, and are located at That STEAM Space.

3516-A Plainfield Ave NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525

To learn more about FIRST, check out firstinspires.org.

Hello from That ONE Team!

To follow us during our 2025 competitive season –

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That ONE Team #4967 - FIRST Robotics Competition5 hours ago

Our team and fans are in full force cheering on the drive team today at LSSU! Watch us in match 69 & 72 https://thebluealliance.com/event/2025milsu

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