Each spring, General Motors employees around the world engage in a program that combines the excitement of a Grand Prix race, the spectacle of Carnival, and the intellectual heft of a TED conference.
That program is the FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®) and GM, as a Founding Sponsor of FIRST® – For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology – sponsors or supports hundreds of teams involving thousands of students around the world.
FIRST is one of many programs and activities focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, that GM and its employees support globally. Each year, Global Manufacturing team members from 169 GM facilities in more than 30 countries participate in some 300 local education initiatives as part of the company’s Driving a Better Tomorrow initiative.