About the Challenge
The FIRST Global Challenge is an olympics-style, international robotics competition that takes place in a different country each year. FIRST Global invites each nation to send a team to build and program a robot to compete. Teams work together to complete tasks in a game themed around one of the greatest challenges facing our planet, including the 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering, in an effort to foster understanding and cooperation among the youth of the world as they use their abilities to solve the world’s problems.
Unbreakable Spirit: Resilient Journey to Athens
On this Lebanese Independence Day, we are reminded that no force can break our spirit.
Team Lebanon’s journey at the First Global Challenge in Athens, Greece, truly reflects that resilience. Despite overwhelming obstacles in preparations, travel, and the crisis back home, Team Lebanon, our country's only representative in the competition, never backed down.
Lebanese Resilience Shines: Team Lebanon's Gold Medal Victory Against All Odds
Against all odds, they returned with the GOLD MEDAL 
in "Courageous Achievement."