Author Archives: Jason Arms

About Jason Arms

President / CEO of FIRST RGV, INC.

Season Registration – How To

McAllen, Texas - We are excited to be just hours away from the Star Wars inspired FIRST RISE season registration launch on May 7, 2019 at 11am CT. This is... Read more »

Using Robotics in McAllen ISD Spotlight

By Kenneth Roberts The Robotics competition program provided by McAllen ISD is expanding opportunities for district students and showing exceptional growth, with teams now present on every district campus including… Read more »

PSJA Sotomayor Spotlighted at FIRST World Festival

PSJA Sotomayor is Spotlighted by FIRST Pharr, Texas - The PSJA Sonia Sotomayor school was spotlighted at the 2019 FIRST World Championship Festival. This very special FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC)... Read more »

FIRST RGV and Sylvan RGV working together in STEM

McAllen, Texas, April 2019 — Sylvan Learning of the Rio Grande Valley’s partnership with FIRST RGV will offer students the ability to become leaders and innovators in science and technology,... Read more »

Season Kick Off A Success in RGV

MCALLEN, RGV – The labor representative for the Texas Workforce Commission says he would not have missed the kickoff to the 2018-19 FIRST RGV Robotics Competition season for the world.... Read more »

Mario Lozoya Coming to RGV and Promotes FIRST

BROWNSVILLE, RGV – Mario Lozoya, governmental relations and external affairs director for Toyota Corporation in San Antonio, is joining the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation (GBIC) as the group’s new executive… Read more »

RGV Teams Spotlighted in Recent Issue of TWS Guide

McAllen, Texas – We are excited to have been included in the recent edition of the Texas Workforce Solutions (TWS) spring / summer edition that is published by the Texas… Read more »

Notice – All Teams 050118

McAllen, Texas – The excitement of robotics in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) is at an all time high and there is a wide-spread belief that there will be an… Read more »

KVEO: FIRST World Robotics Championship 2018

Houston, Texas – It’s a competition dedicated ‘For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.’ Also known as the FIRST Championship. Over 15,000 from students 43 countries submitted over 600 robots... Read more »

Robotics Summer Camps

Pharr, Texas We are excited to announce our summer camp line up. Those interested in exciting, authentic FIRST robotics programs can join the professionals of FIRST RGV for exciting hands… Read more »