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

So first question: are we facing a period of disruptive technology?

所以第一个问题是：,我们正面临技术颠覆吗？

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

So I set about on two missions, the first was to visit high schools around country and talk to young people about their use of digital technology and second was to go online and began to look closely at websites, chat rooms, internet list that young people were creating.

我为此制定了两个任务，第一个是拜访全国的高中,与年轻人进行交谈,关于他们对电子技术的使用,第二个任务就是上网,开始认真研究那些网站，聊天室，以及年轻人们所创造的网络世界。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

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