STUDENT BENEFITS
FIRST BADGE PROGRAM
- Tracking Personal Growth
- Skill Recognition
- Tracking Personal Growth
- Certification Based on Skill Level
- Portfolio Building
- Pride and Motivation to Inspire Others
- Proof of FIRST Experience
FIRST Badge Program
It is time to celebrate your team’s success and give them something tangible to showcase their achievement. The FIRST Badge program celebrates individual achievements for which students can acquire badges to represent their years of participation and acquired skills.
Over time, students collect a series of badges to showcase their involvement with FIRST by building a personal portfolio and ultimately acquiring specific competencies and skills at the FRC level for Programming, Design, Mechanical & Manufacturing, Program and Project Management, Leadership etc. Our future goal is to record students who have acquired these badges and showcase their achievement, training and certification portfolio electronically and through recorded documentation.
Each badge provides an opportunity for a student to strive for personal success and have something important to take away from their FIRST Experience. Coaches, teachers. Mentors and team leads, we encourage you to recognize your students.
FIRST BENEFITS
- Student Tracking from FLL DIscover or Earlier
- Retention vs. Attrition
- Database of all FIRST Graduates into Mentors
- FIRST Certification and Training to Build Skills
- FIRST Exposure in Workspace Through Recognized Certification
- Tracking Graduates of FIRST into the Mentorship Program
ABOUT FIRST Canada Programs
FIRST® LEGO® League introduces science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to children ages 4-14 through fun, exciting hands-on learning. Participants gain real-world problem-solving experience through a guided, global robotics program, helping today’s students and teachers build a better future together.
Our three divisions inspire youth to experiment and grow their critical thinking, coding, and design skills through hands-on STEM learning and robotics.
It’s way more than building robots. FIRST Tech Challenge teams (up to 15 team members, ages 9 to 14) are challenged to design, build, program, and operate robots to compete in a head-to-head challenge in an alliance format.
Guided by adult coaches and mentors, students develop STEM skills and practice engineering principles while realizing the value of hard work, innovation, and working as a team.
The robot kit is reusable from year to year and can be coded using a variety of levels of Java-based programming. Teams design and build robots, raise funds, design, and market their team brand, and do community outreach to earn specific awards.
Combining the excitement of sport with the rigors of science and technology. We call FIRST Robotics Competition the ultimate Sport for the Mind. High-school student participants call it “the hardest fun you’ll ever have. ”Under strict rules, limited time, and resources, teams of students are challenged to raise funds, design a team “brand,” hone teamwork skills, and build and program industrial-size robots to play a difficult field game against like-minded competitors. It’s as close to real-world engineering as a student can get. Volunteer professional mentors lend their time and talents to guide each team.
FIRST LEGO League Badges
Bronze Badge
Silver Badge
Gold Badge
Platinum Badge
To receive a bronze badge students must participate for one year/season of FIRST LEGO League.
To receive a silver badge students must participate for two years/seasons of FIRST LEGO League.
To receive a gold badge students must participate for three or more years/seasons of FIRST LEGO League.
To receive a platinum badge students must participate for five or more years/seasons of FIRST LEGO League
FIRST Tech Challenge Badges
FIRST Robotics Competition Badges
Cross Program Badges
