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FIRST® Tech Challenge Professional Development- Seven Rivers Region
Thu, Aug 14
|Wanek Center of Innovation at WTC
During FIRST Tech Challenge professional development, you'll learn how to engage students in grades 7-12 in the engineering design process and career-ready practices through team-driven robot building and programming.
Time & Location
Aug 14, 2025, 10:30 AM CDT – Aug 15, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT
Wanek Center of Innovation at WTC, 744 Badger St, La Crosse, WI 54601, USA
About the event
Dates & Times:
Thursday, August 14th from 10:30am - 6pm (60-minute working lunch)
Friday, August 15th from 9:00am - 4:00pm (60-minute working lunch)
Course Description
The FIRST® Tech Challenge professional development course is designed for new and experienced teachers, facilitators, coaches, and mentors to enhance their overall FIRST® program knowledge, giving participants a strong understanding of how to implement all aspects of the program and how to achieve STEM learning objectives. In FIRST Tech Challenge, students learn to think like engineers. Teams design, build, and program robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams with a spirit of friendly competition. Many call it “the hardest fun you’ll ever have.” Participants in this course will walk in the footsteps of the students as they engage in these hands-on experiences and practice engineering principles such as keeping an engineering notebook.
Course Requirements
Tickets
FTC Professional Development
The FIRST® Tech Challenge professional development course is designed for new and experienced teachers, facilitators, coaches, and mentors to enhance their overall program knowledge, giving participants a strong understanding of how to implement all aspects of the program and how to achieve STEM learning objectives.
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