Last Updated: 05/18/2011*

Raytheon sponsored 41 teams from Alabama, California, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Virginia in the 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition. Raytheon engineers mentored student teams to build a robot in six weeks using math and science concepts. The teams then participated in local and regional competitions.

Twelve of the Raytheon-sponsored teams advanced to the FIRST Robotics Championship, which ran Wednesday, April 27, through Saturday, April 30, in St. Louis. And three Raytheon-sponsored teams — No.330 from Hermosa Beach, Calif., No.1717 from Goleta, Calif., and No.78 from Newport, R.I. — made it to their respective division’s semifinals. Another Raytheon-sponsored team — No.687 from Carson, Calif. — received the Championship Entrepreneurship Award, sponsored by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.

Nearly 52,000 high school students representing 2,075 teams from across the country participated in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics competition this year. The exciting competition is intended to inspire students to pursue education and career paths in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). For the competition, students are required to  design and build robots using only a standard kit of parts.

In addition to sponsoring teams, Raytheon awards 40 scholarships worth $1,000 annually to FIRST Robotics participants planning to pursue STEM in college. Students can use the Raytheon corporate scholarship at any college or university.

Raytheon’s support of FIRST is a component of its MathMovesU® program, an initiative to engage middle school students in the excitement of math and science — and help create the next generation of innovators for the United States Since the program was launched in 2005, it has touched the lives of more than 1 million students, teachers and parents nationwide.

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