From the archive
Memories
Stories from FIRST® in Texas — the volunteers, teams and students
who built the seasons before this one.
For sixteen years the programs in this state were run by FIRST® in Texas, an independent organization of staff, contractors and a great many volunteers. In 2026 that work came back inside FIRST itself, as FIRST Texas. The people did not change. The seasons did not change. But the website that carried the record of them is being switched off.
These 51 stories were on it. They are spotlights, mostly — a volunteer who has judged for a decade, a team that found a way to pay for its season, a student explaining what a robot taught them, an alum describing where it led. Between them they cover 2014 to 2026, which is longer than the old site itself admitted: its final move stamped most of these with the day they were migrated rather than the day they were written.
They were recovered from the Internet Archive and kept here, as close to how they were published as we could manage. Nobody wrote them for a history page. They read better for it.
Some of this is incomplete, and you can help.
Every story now carries the date it was actually published, from 2014 to 2026, and only 20 of the 57 photographs these stories referenced were ever captured by the archive. The rest exist now only in somebody’s own files. If you know when a story happened, who is in a picture, or you have a photograph of your own from that day, the button on any card will take it — no account, one box. Everything is checked by the team before it appears.
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Partners
The organizations behind the season · 2
February 2026Sponsor Spotlight: Applied Materials FoundationCreating meaningful pathways into STEM often begins with the people around you who believe in the value of investing in young minds. It takes partners who are willing to champion confidence, foster belonging, and create opportunities so students can discover what they are capable of achieving. Throu
February 2026More Than Volunteering: Two Sigma’s Commitment to FIRST in TexasBehind every FIRST® in Texas event, there is a network of dedicated volunteers and corporate partners who quietly make the magic happen. Volunteering with FIRST in Texas is not just something to cross off a list. For the team at Two Sigma, it is about investing in curiosity, creativity, and the futu
Recovered from the Internet Archive, September 2026. Dates come from the original site’s own files and from the photographs’ capture dates where those survived; where neither did, the story says so rather than guessing.