FIRST is the short way of saying the organization's complete name: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

American inventor Dean Kamen started FIRST in nineteen eighty-nine to increase young people's interest in science and technology.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

She became the first African-American woman to earn a degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

The X-15 was the first major investment by the United States in manned space flight technology.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Her best guess is that some schools with a lot of technology will be the first to use them, but only in addition to their traditional books.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

First,we will describe some recent developments in media technology.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

It was the "first generation" of technology.

VOA: special.2010.11.26

An Australian company, Electro Optic Systems, has received a $3.5 million government grant to develop the world's first automated, high-precision, laser tracking technology.

VOA: standard.2010.07.24

Ruhli and his team of researchers at the Swiss Mummy Institute have just completed the first feasibility study of how they could use the technology to reveal a mummy's secrets, without damaging the mummy.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05