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Last day and Awards at the first FIRST Global Challenge

7/18/2017

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For those that were watching the news or live feed, you may have caught that Ivanka Trump attended an exhibition match at FIRST Global Challenge this morning. Members of FTC 3595 Schrodinger's Hat and FTC 6037 W.A.G.S. Robotics make up Team USA and can be seen in these pictures:
​https://twitter.com/F1RSTglobal/status/887382754685575173
https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/887315148163211264

The inaugural FIRST Global Challenge is now over, and not all the scores and information is posted yet, but their Twitter account has been announcing the awards:

Sophia Kovalevskaya awards for International Journey go to Teams Madagascar, France, and Nigeria

Dr. Mae Jemison awards for International Unity go to Teams United Arab Emirates, Australia, and Canada

Rajaa Cherkaoui El Moursli awards for Courageous Achievement go to Teams Oman, Afghanistan, and South Sudan

​Zhang Heng Awards for Engineering Design go to Teams Mexico, Mali, and India

Ustad Ahmad Lahori Awards for Innovation in Engineering go to Teams Spain, Indonesia, and Latvia

Albert Einstein Award winners for FIRST Global International Excellence are Teams Lebanon, Tunisia, and continental team Oceania

FIRST Global Grand Challenge Awards go to Teams Armenia, Poland, and continental team Europe

Videos of the event can be found at their YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTSVzV2M_ZH-dY1yAz5fiZw/videos

Day 2 video (Tuesday July 18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddh0kF-DbSk

article about the team from Afghanistan that was denied visas twice but eventually got permission to attend:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/world/asia/afghanistan-girls-robotics-visas-trump.html

Congratulations to all who participated or volunteered at the event!
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