The theme of the FIRST Global Challenge 2024 is "Feeding the Future", that means finding innovative solutions how to reduce food waste and ensure sustainable food production. In the first part of the competition, international teams will present innovative projects that reflect the problems of their countries and in the second, competitive part, they will build and program their robots.

The Embassy is proud that the team CZECHIA 2024 of fourteen students from the International School of Prague will be among the young robotics talents from 193 countries that will meet in Athens. Young innovators with different skills and experience are exploring innovative ideas and improving their technologies together. They share a strong passion for building and coding robots. Each of the member brings to the team unique experiences from the competitions they have participated in. In February 2024, some of them competed against other international schools in the CEESA Robotics Tournament in Bucharest. In June 2024 they had the opportunity to participate in the FIRST Slovakia tournament in Košice, where they gained further experience and developed their teamwork. In June, all the team came together to start working on their robot for the participation in the Athens FIRST Global Challenge.

Speaking about the FIRST Global Challenge in Athens, American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen, founder of the competition, stressed that it is an Olympic-style event where the best young minds from practically every country in the world come together to collaborate, respect each other and create a better future.