NE FIRST

05/19/2026

SENIORS! You’ve shown us all what it means to be Gracious Professionals, FIRST Leaders, teammates, cooperative competitors...and soon, graduates! Your passion, innovation, and teamwork inspire us all. Here's to your next chapter! 🎉

Congratulations to our students graduating this year—your journey is just beginning! Check out the Class of 2026 photos from some of our FIRST Robotics Competition events this year and take a second to join the NE FIRST Alumni Network at nefirst.org/alumni

Happy FIRST Signing Day! 🎓

05/18/2026

It's been one month since the New England District Championship and Premier Event, two weeks since the FIRST Championship, and only a few days since the off-season officially started in NE! 🤯

Relive the incredible season-ending celebration of all FIRST programs and congratulate our award-winning teams from New England:

https://www.nefirst.org/post/new-england-first-robotics-teams-from-uncover-success-at-the-highest-level-first-championship-2026

A few team highlights:

✨ Johnson Division Rookie All-Star Award Winner: FRC 11269 Batteries Not Included from South Burlington, VT
✨ Archimedes Division Winner: FRC 7407 Wired Boars from Wallingford, CT
✨ Hopper Division Winner: FRC Team 6329: Bucksport High School Robotics The Bucks' Wrath
✨ Johnson Division Winner: FRC 6324 Blue Devils from Salem, NH
✨ Johnson Division Winner: FRC 2877 The LigerBots from Newtonville, MA
✨ Milstein Division Winner: FRC 4905 Andromeda One from Ayer Shirley
✨ Jackson Division Inspire Award 2nd Place: FTC 4410, ARC Lightning from Andover, MA
✨ Ross Division Winner: FTC 3565, Ghost Robotics from Westford, MA
✨ FLL Explore Coding Award: FLL-E 35642 Team NESA from Nashua, NH

Special thanks to our photographer, FIRST alum Mike Mullinax, for all of the amazing photos featured in the blog and in the FIRST Champs albums at nefirst.org/photos! 📸

To close out a FIRST season filled with surprising discoveries and blasts from the past, thousands of students, mentors, volunteers, sponsors and friends traveled to Houston, Texas for the FIRST Championship presented by BAE Systems

05/02/2026

Get ready to THRIVE New England! FIRST CANOPY will kick off next season with BIOGLOW, BIOBUZZ and BIOCORE! 🍃

05/02/2026

We are ready to cheer on our 20 FIRST Robotics Competition teams and 6 FIRST Tech Challenge that moved on to the playoffs here in Houston!

Watch from home on the FIRST YouTube pages; New England teams are still going strong to finally uncover the final matches in REBUILT and DECODE! 🙌

FRC: https://www.youtube.com/firstroboticscompetition
FTC: https://www.youtube.com/user/FIRSTTechChallenge

05/01/2026

CONGRATULATIONS to Arjun Dasari, one of only 10 students to be recognized as a 2026 FIRST Leadership Award winner from FIRST Tech Challenge!

Arjun is a junior on The Wheeler School's FTC team, Electric Quahogs 252 from Providence, RI.

Way to make Rhode Island and New England proud, Arjun!! 🧡🎉

04/30/2026

It's the final countdown! From every FIRST program and every New England state, 55 teams are competing at the FIRST Championship in Houston to uncover success at the end of FIRST AGE! ⌛️

Check out which division to watch for our FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics Competition teams, and cheer on our FIRST LEGO League teams in Explore and Challenge!

Congratulations and thank you all for representing New England ❤️🤍💙

04/30/2026

Our weekend at The Big E wasn't just the biggest FIRST Robotics Competition event in New England....it was the biggest FIRST Tech Challenge event too!!

The only Premier Event scheduled before the FIRST Championship, the second annual New England Premier Event featured 56 teams across two divisions. One of the field namesakes, archaeologist Alix Martin from Strawbery Banke Museum, was able to join us for the start of the event this year! 🧭

Congratulations to top event winners:

INGENUITY
✨ Winners and Martin Division Champions: FTC 16965, SUPERCRITICAL from Redmond, WA and FTC 22345, SURFACE from Exeter, NH
✨ Finalists and Crock Division Champions: FTC 32385, MIGHTY MOJO from Punta Gorda, FL and FTC 18438, Wolfpack Machina from Beverly, MA

MARTIN DIVISION
✨ Inspire Award: FTC 18442, Gear Rotation from Sykesville, MD
✨ 2nd Place: FTC 252, Electric Quahogs from Providence, RI
✨ 3rd Place : FTC 21689, Team Tesseract from Nashua, NH
https://ftc-events.firstinspires.org/2025/FPENE1/awards

CROCK DIVISION
✨ Inspire Award: FTC 3526, Marlbots from Los Angeles, CA
✨ 2nd Place: FTC 12589, Pioneer Robotics from Shrewsbury, MA
✨ 3rd Place: FTC 10331, ARC Hailstorm from Andover, MA
https://ftc-events.firstinspires.org/2025/FPENE2/awards

Find all award winner at ftc.events and all photos at nefirst.org/photos!

04/27/2026

Congratulations to our New England District Championship INGENUITY award winners:

Woodie Flowers Finalist Awards:
✨ Kyle Herren from FRC 1071: Team MAX 1071
✨ Michelle Leach from FRC 5112: Gongoliers 5112

FIRST Leadership Finalist Awards:
✨ Charlotte L. from FRC 8626: Cyber Sailors
✨ Everett H. from FRC 172: The Northern Force
✨ Auritro D. from FRC 999, MechaRAMS
✨ Abinaya A. from FRC 2342, Team Phoenix 4-H Robotics Club
✨ Evelyn B. from FRC 4905: Ayer Shirley FIRST Robotics Team #4905
✨ Parnitha K. from FRC 190: Gompei and the HERD

Volunteer of the Year:
✨ Manisha Rajaghatta, Senior Voice, FRC Alum + Mentor

FIRST Impact Awards:
✨ FRC 6328: Mechanical Advantage - FRC 6328
✨ FRC Team 195: The CyberKnights
✨ FRC 4905: Ayer Shirley FIRST Robotics Team #4905
✨ FRC 131 CHAOS

Engineering Inspiration Awards:
✨ FRC 178: The 2nd Law Enforcers - Farmington FIRST Robotics Team 178
✨ FRC 999: MechaRAMS

Rookie All-Star Award:
✨ FRC 11269: Batteries Not Included

04/26/2026

Congratulations to our award winners from the New England District Championship Burns Division presented by GlobalFoundries!🏆

04/25/2026

Congratulations to our award winners from the New England District Championship Newsom Division presented by GE Aerospace!🏆