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It's Manufacturing Week! Here are six tips to help your team bring your #FIRSTCANOPY robot to life. Have another great tip to add? Share it in the comments! 🤖🛠️ #stem #robotics #stemeducation

Obligatory robot photo dump 📸🔥#omgrobots

What does Gracious Professionalism look like in action? Team 3284 “LASER,” the founding team of #WalkLikeWoodieDay, shares how they bring the ethos to life and offers ideas for teams everywhere to incorporate Gracious Professionalism into their own FIRST experience. How does your team practice GP? Tell us in the comments! #stem #robotics #stemeducation

I bet you thought we were going to say robotics isn’t 24/7? 🤪 If we’re not in the shop or competing, we’re thinking about it! #omgrobots

Honestly, we’d take five if you’re offering! 😂🤖 #omgrobots

What will YOU gain by joining the FIRST CANOPY season? 🤖 Mentorship from STEM professionals in programming, manufacturing, marketing and more 🤖 Real-world skills you can put to work through unmatched hands-on experiences 🤖 A head start on your future career with opportunities to explore a wide range of industries 🤖 A powerful network of people invested in your success including STEM professionals, leaders, educators and advocates. Register for the 2026-2027 FIRST season today and build the skills, connections and experiences that will shape your future!

Could there ever be a more exciting time for our sweet little robots?! 🥹 #omgrobots

During a gathering of FIRST partners, we asked them to share what FIRST means to them. Their answers left us feeling grateful and proud that the FIRST mission has such a profound impact and inspired about what's ahead for our global community. Check out what they had to say and let us know what FIRST means to you in the comments! #morethanrobots✌️❤️🤖

Gold star behavior for the win ⭐️🤖 #morethanrobots

Team shirts, buttons, game pieces, oh my! We might need more than two hands to hold all our FIRST gear… 😅🤖 #omgrobots Thanks @Luiza Camargo for the video! 🎉

FIRST community… or chic community? 😎✨🤖 #omgrobots

Meet Fermin, a FIRST alum, volunteer, and Head of Mexico Operations at West Coast Products! 👋 Inspired by his own FIRST experience, he now uses his STEAM skills to provide technical support, engineering guidance, and passionate mentorship both through his career and work within the FIRST community. #PeopleofSTEAM #stem #robotics #stemeducation

Score fuel if you’re excited for #FIRSTCANOPY! 🌎🐝🐞 Drop your game predictions in the comments and don’t forget to register your team to join our biodiversity-inspired season! #robotics #stem #stemeducation

Name something more beautiful... we'll wait 🤩 #omgrobots Thanks @frc3255 for the collab! 🎉#stem #robotics #stemeducation

No matter your interests or passions, there's a place for you in FIRST! 🤩 Drop your subteam in the comments 👇 Thank you FIRST Robotics Competition Teams 9277 and 10384 for the video! #omgrobots #stem #robotics

A little bit of robotics, a little bit of GP, a little bit of the #stemsquad… it’s all we need! ✌️❤️🤖 #robotics #stem #stemeducation

Yes, we could in fact make an entire documentary about this topic 🍿🤖 Tell us what YOU’D share if Netflix called you to participate 🫵 #robotics #stem #stemeducation #morethanrobots #omgrobots

Meet Alex, the FIRST certified Button Master! A FIRST alum-turned-FIRST mentor, Alex is now applying his STEAM skills as an Aerospace Panel Builder and using his experience to inspire the next generation of STEM leaders. Drop a comment on how Alex has inspired you! #FIRSTAlumni #PeopleofSTEAM

Raise your hand if any of these hit for you! 🙌 Thank you @Luiza Camargo for sharing 10 things only FIRST community members understand! Comment down below, what else would you add to this list? 🤔🤖

Meet FIRST Robotics Competition @Octopus #7567 🐙 mentored by FIRST alum @Luiza Camargo! 🇧🇷 They’ve been hard at work sharing their OCTOBOOK, a hands-on introductory course that spans seven physics and engineering courses. Fun fact: the OCTOBOOK has been translated into six languages, traveled to five continents, and has impacted the lives of over 300,000 students! 🐙 Check out Luiza's page to hear teams from Brazil explain their project in thirty seconds! #PeopleofSTEAM #morethanrobots #FIRSTAlumni #frc

Someone tell us it’s just a bad dream 😅 What would make your list?! #robotics #stem #stemeducation

The highest complement of them all 😎 #stem #robotics #omgrobots

Just over here rich in life & fuel thanks to FIRST 😎🤖🟡 #omgrobots #robotics #stemeducation

ICYMI: A month ago we celebrated the culmination of the 2025-2026 #FIRSTAGEpresented by Qualcomm season at #FIRSTChamp. Relive some of the history-making moments with us 🤩 #omgrobots #stem #robotics #fyp

Okay, robotics kids… what do you do when it’s not build season? 👀 Share your off-season hobbies below ⬇️ #omgrobots #frc #ftc #firstrobotics

“Trying is the key to finding solutions. If you get it wrong, congratulations — you’ve discovered a new way that doesn’t work. Change direction and try again.”  Meet João! FIRST alum turned mentor and student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 💡 Hear his advice for anyone pursuing STEAM and share a moment on your FIRST team when trying again led to a breakthrough! #morethanrobots #PeopleofSTEAM

Leave some emojis below letting us know how robot clips like these make you feel! 🤩🕺Be sure to share yours and tag us… we want to see more clips… 😭 #omgrobots

We want to see your aesthetic #FIRSTChamp photos… 👀 Share them in the comments below! 🕴️

From custom team features to googly eyes, robots are the cutest! 🥹 Share a pic in the comments and brighten our day! 🤖 #robots #frc #ftc #omgrobots #firstrobotics

Do you miss #FIRSTChamp as much as we do? Tag someone you’re ready to tackle the off-season with! #frc #ftc #omgrobots