2025 FIRST Forums @ Purdue West Lafayette Slots

Sep 27, 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

Intros & Welcome - WALC 1132

Sep 27, 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

3D Printing in FIRST

PFPanel - FIRST After High School

RoboDrama 101

Command Based Programming

How do we Educate?

Step Up Your Outreach

Quiet Room

Mentor & Discussion Lounge

Building & Sustaining a K-12 Pipeline

Sep 27, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

How to be Prepared for Kickoff

Preserving FIRST Culture and Ethics

FIN's Got Talent - Volunteering as a GA or Emcee

How to Win Awards in FTC

Prototyping as a Design Tool: Lessons from Westside Robotics

Mission, Money, and Mentorship: A Guide to Nonprofit Robotics Management

Quiet Room

Mentor & Discussion Lounge

Sep 27, 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Lunch Break

Sep 27, 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Practice FTC Judging Interview or Presentation Prep

Industrial Engineering Robotics and Manufacturing Activity - Build @ Scale Lab Wave 1

Purdue Campus Tour - Wave 1

Andy Baker's 20 Favorite FRC Robots

Purdue Civil Engineering Activity - Who knew you could build with paper?

Wires Matter: How to Build Robots That Don’t Die Mid-Match

Accelerating Robot Design with Onshape Configurable Parts

Branding and Media

Quiet Room

Mentor & Discussion Lounge

How to Be An Ally to LGBTQ+ Students and More Inclusive Practices

Sep 27, 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

Click. Capture. Compete: A Guide to Robotics Photography

Industrial Engineering Robotics and Manufacturing Activity - Mechanisms And Robotic Systems (MARS) Lab

FIRST Mentor Development Initiative, Presented by FIRST HQ

Purdue Campus Tour - Wave 2

Yet Another Software Suite - Sneak Peak!

Scouting's Role in an FRC Team and Why it Matters

Game Piece Petting Zoo | A Decade of FRC

Quiet Room

Mentor & Discussion Lounge

FIRST Dean's List Q&A

Sep 27, 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM

Event Volunteer Panel Session

Industrial Engineering Robotics and Manufacturing Activity - Build @ Scale Lab Wave 2

The Art of Organizing Code

Entrepreneurship - Creating and Sustaining AndyMark

Getting started with Swerve

Leadership: From Self to Team

Quiet Room

Mentor & Discussion Lounge

SystemCore Panel and QnA

Building Student Leaders in Real Time: Lessons from a Green Leadership Team