Welcome back to our Byte of... newsletter! In the past two weeks, FIRST Global teams have raised awareness of UN Sustainable Development Goals, showcased their talents, shared appreciation shoutouts to FIRST Global mentors and volunteers, and dusted off their STEM skills to design paper airplanes and launchers. Here are some of the many impressive submissions.
Join Us for Our Second STEM Talk and Interview Next Saturday
Crystal Valentine and Nilesh Shah have been involved with FIRST Global since 2017, so they've seen the direct impact of FIRST Global on countless youth. Join us as we learn about how their engineering careers led them to volunteer, and how students can use their FIRST Global experience and an engineering degree as a stepping stone to an impactful life.
⌚️ Saturday 1 August 2020 at 1:00 PM UTC
➡️ Streaming on YouTube and Facebook
Mic Drop 🎤
An important part of the process of implementing change is bringing awareness to issues that need to be addressed. For the fourth social media challenge, we asked teams to create a short video educating others on one of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and identifying action items they and others can take to help address it.
Team Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Team Sri Lanka took to the mic for UN Sustainable Development Goal #2 — Zero Hunger.
Team Sudan 🇸🇩 Team Sudan dropped the mic on UN Sustainable Development Goal #1 — No Poverty.
Team Republic of Korea 🇰🇷 Team Republic of Korea shined some light on Sustainable Development Goal #13 — Climate Action.
Team Pakistan 🇵🇰 Team Pakistan brought out their storytelling skills for UN Sustainable Development Goal #1 — No Poverty.
Team United States of America 🇺🇸 Team United States of America highlighted Sustainable Development Goal #4 — Quality Education.
Team Qatar 🇶🇦 Team Qatar made some waves for UN Sustainable Development Goal #14 — Life Below Water.
Our Teams Have Got Talent 🎪
Students of STEM are students of talent. Not only do they develop STEM skills, they also each have their own ways of shining bright and lighting up the world around them. For the fifth social media challenge, we asked teams to submit their talents for our FIRST Global talent show!
Team Mexico 🇲🇽 Team Mexico's talents include rapping, basketball, painting, singing, confectionary, oration, charrería, multilingualism, and drawing.
Team Iran 🇮🇷
Team Iran took a creative approach to defining talent, including caring about other's feelings and making people smile. "There are a lot of talents that we are capable of, but we believe the best talent is humanity."
Team Paraguay 🇵🇾
Team Paraguay showcased their culture and abilities by performing a traditional Paraguayan dance.
Team Greece 🇬🇷
Team Greece's talents include origami, piano, animation, guitar, juggling, and drawing.
Team Bolivia 🇧🇴
Team Bolivia showcased their talents through a creative animation. They plan to tie other challenges into the story as the season progresses.
Team Eritrea 🇪🇷
Team Eritrea's talents include ventriloquism, drawing, skateboarding, and basketball.
Volunteer Shoutout 📣
A key part of the success of FIRST Global is the selfless dedication of our many mentors and volunteers, so we asked teams to give them an appreciation shoutout for our sixth social media challenge. This video captures some of the many inspiring messages from FIRST Global students.
Taking Flight ✈️
For our first technical challenge of the season, teams had two weeks to design and build a paper airplane and a launcher to make it fly. The objective was to get the longest flight distance, and to do it with style.
Team Venezuela 🇻🇪
Check out Team Venezuela's creative opening scene and the design that launched their paper airplane 15 meters.
Team Spain 🇪🇸
Team Spain built a cannon and reinvented their paper airplane to reach a total distance of 45 meters!
Team Russian Federation 🇷🇺
Team Russian Federation's design enabled their airplane to fly over 37 meters.
Team Liberia 🇱🇷
Team Liberia flew their airplane 12 meters. Check out those cheers!
Team Turkmenistan 🇹🇲
Team Turkmenistan learned that when your initial plans don't work out, simply go back to the drawing board and try again.
Team Montenegro 🇲🇪
Team Montenegro brought out the power tools to create a bow-like launcher for their paper airplane and reached a distance of 7 meters.
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