{"id":84454,"date":"2019-04-01T12:37:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T09:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/first-2019\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T12:37:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T09:37:04","slug":"first-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Robots and High-School Pupils Participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some 12,000 elementary and high-school pupils aged six to 18 will join dozens of robots from April 2 to 4, 2019 for this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstisrael.org.il\/\">FIRST Robotics Competition<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The event, organized by Israel FIRST (the acronym for \u201cFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology\u201d) and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will be held in the Menora Mivtachim Arena in Tel Aviv. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mew6G_og-PI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FIRST Israel, which became an official Technion project in 2013, aims at preparing and fostering promising youngsters to be the leaders and entrepreneurs of the future. This is done through innovative robotics programs providing scientific, engineering and technological inspiration to pupils, who are guided by engineers and experts from academia, industry and the military. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 200 groups are involved in encouraging teams of pupils from kindergarten to 12<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> grade to excel in programs that combine excitement and creativity and nurture life skills. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The competition will be held in Tel Aviv on Tuesday through Thursday this week with the theme <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mew6G_og-PI&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDestination: Deep Space<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of the competition, the pupils were asked to build robots that could load spaceships and climb stairs, all in six intensive weeks of planning, drafting, building and programming. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35007\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35007 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/avishai.finkelstein.IMG_8918-3-720x480-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A previous FIRST competition\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A previous FIRST competition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The winning Israeli teams will compete in the FIRST World Robotics Championship in Detroit, Michigan in the US in April. Last year, 17 Israeli teams qualified for the world championship, and the Hadarim High School from Hod Hasharon was part of the winning group. To date, 34 teams have represented Israel in the world championships. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FIRST is an international, non-profit organization founded in the US 27 years ago by the inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen \u2013 a serial entrepreneur and advocate of science and technology who holds more than 440 patents in the US and other countries. The organization was established to inspire young people, promote motivation and curiosity and encourage them to pursue engineering, science and technology. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FIRST was founded in Israel 15 years ago by Major-General Avihu Ben-Nun, in cooperation with the Technion. This activity is dependent on the involvement of hundreds of thousands of volunteers who participate in the FIRST world community. Every year, each local branch organizes four different technology competitions for kindergarten children and pupils in elementary schools, junior high schools and high schools in many countries, including Israel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Thursday at 13:45 p.m. on the last day of the event, the finals will be held, and the closing ceremony will follow at 18:00 p.m. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>For more information: Technion spokesperson Doron Shaham, 050-310-9088 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots and High-School Pupils Participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition Some 12,000 elementary and high-school pupils aged six to 18 will join dozens of robots from April 2 to 4, 2019 for this year\u2019s FIRST Robotics Competition. The event, organized by Israel FIRST (the acronym for \u201cFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology\u201d) and&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/\">Continue Reading<span> FIRST 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FIRST 2019 - \u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FIRST 2019 - \u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robots and High-School Pupils Participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition Some 12,000 elementary and high-school pupils aged six to 18 will join dozens of robots from April 2 to 4, 2019 for this year\u2019s FIRST Robotics Competition. The event, organized by Israel FIRST (the acronym for \u201cFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology\u201d) and&hellip; Continue Reading FIRST 2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"\u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-04-01T09:37:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"shlomi ben-oz\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"shlomi ben-oz\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/\",\"name\":\"FIRST 2019 - \u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/avishai.finkelstein.IMG_8918-3-720x480-1-300x200.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-04-01T09:37:04+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/d65b78b7a7446bdf9fb69078573b8320\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/avishai.finkelstein.IMG_8918-3-720x480-1-300x200.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/avishai.finkelstein.IMG_8918-3-720x480-1-300x200.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home Page\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"FIRST 2019\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/\",\"name\":\"\u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/d65b78b7a7446bdf9fb69078573b8320\",\"name\":\"shlomi ben-oz\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/96b13158d164281df14ad8583ec2cb64?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/96b13158d164281df14ad8583ec2cb64?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"shlomi ben-oz\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/author\/ben-ozshlomitechnion-ac-il\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"FIRST 2019 - \u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"FIRST 2019 - \u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc","og_description":"Robots and High-School Pupils Participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition Some 12,000 elementary and high-school pupils aged six to 18 will join dozens of robots from April 2 to 4, 2019 for this year\u2019s FIRST Robotics Competition. The event, organized by Israel FIRST (the acronym for \u201cFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology\u201d) and&hellip; Continue Reading FIRST 2019","og_url":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/","og_site_name":"\u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc","article_published_time":"2019-04-01T09:37:04+00:00","author":"shlomi ben-oz","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"shlomi ben-oz","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/","url":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/","name":"FIRST 2019 - \u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/avishai.finkelstein.IMG_8918-3-720x480-1-300x200.jpg","datePublished":"2019-04-01T09:37:04+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/d65b78b7a7446bdf9fb69078573b8320"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/avishai.finkelstein.IMG_8918-3-720x480-1-300x200.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/avishai.finkelstein.IMG_8918-3-720x480-1-300x200.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/first-2019\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home Page","item":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"FIRST 2019"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/","name":"\u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/d65b78b7a7446bdf9fb69078573b8320","name":"shlomi ben-oz","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/96b13158d164281df14ad8583ec2cb64?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/96b13158d164281df14ad8583ec2cb64?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"shlomi ben-oz"},"url":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/author\/ben-ozshlomitechnion-ac-il\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}