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Hello, FIRST community! While there may be a variety of ages reading this issue, this article is aimed at those who will be graduating high school in the upcoming years! One major question you may have about the post-secondary application process likely involves scholarships. Multiple FIRST Canada youth council members have won significant scholarships to help finance their education....
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Hello, FIRST community! While there may be a variety of ages reading this issue, this article is aimed at those who will be graduating high school in the upcoming years! One major question you may have about the post-secondary application process likely involves scholarships. Multiple FIRST Canada youth council members have won major scholarships to help finance their education....
Hello FIRST community! While there may be a variety of ages reading this issue, this article is aimed at those who will be graduating high school in upcoming years! One major question you may have about the post-secondary application process likely involves scholarships. Multiple members of the FIRST Canada youth council have won major scholarships to help finance their...
Hello FIRST community! While there may be a variety of ages reading this issue, this article is aimed at those who will be graduating high school in upcoming years! One major question you may have about the post-secondary application process likely involves scholarships. Multiple members of the FIRST Canada youth council have won major scholarships to help finance their...
In this issue of the BEING FIRST Magazine, we want to spotlight the 2022 winners and finalists of the Woodie Flowers Award. Here is an interview we conducted with the 2022 Award winner Christine Sapio from FRC team 2486 CocoNuts from Flagstaff, Arizona. What are your preferred pronouns? “She/her/hers please” What initially made you interested in FIRST? “That's actually a really funny story!...
In this issue of the BEING FIRST Magazine, we want to spotlight the 2022 winner and finalists of the Woodie Flowers Award. Here is an interview we conducted with the 2022 Award Finalist Niall O'Driscoll from FRC team 7480 Machine Mavericks from Kingston, Ontario. What are your preferred pronouns? “He/him” What initially made you interested in FIRST? “At the suggestion of a friend,...
In each issue, we would like to spotlight a University Program so students can get ideas of where they want to apply to university. In this issue, we are spotlighting the University of Waterloo’s Mechatronics Engineering program! History The Mechatronics program was created in 2000 by a group of professors from the Mechanical Engineering, Systems Design Engineering, and Electrical & Computer...
Personal pronouns: she/her Hi! I’m Amelia and a grade 11 student on the FIRST Robotics Canada Youth Council! I’ve been on my community team, UMOJA 7712 for more than two years now and my favourite parts are getting to work with everyone on various projects, graphic designing and sketching, as well as project management and social media!! When I was younger,...
Hello FIRST Canada family, friends, and community! We entering into fall with the next edition of the BEING FIRST Magazine! We are starting off the new school year by helping you to get to know the new Youth Council members!  And for all you seniors out there, we have advice from youth council alumni who won scholarships to help finance their...
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Full Name + Pronouns Emiko Wijeysundera, she/her/hers Years on the Youth Council 2! How many years did you participate in FIRST? 8 Please describe your participation in FIRST during high school FRC team 7558, mentoring FLL, referee for FLL District Champs! Please let us know what you've been up to since graduating high school Studying engineering at UBC! What's the most important thing you learned through FIRST? How have...