F.I.R.S.T. is a nonprofit organization that is run and sponsored by a man named Dean Kamen. Mr. Kamen is responsible for the wheel chair that can safely climb stairs. He also invented the Segway, the motorized scooter that moves by the rider shifting their center of gravity.

        The actual competition is held each year, and runs from early January to the end of April. The first weekend of January, there is an assembly held in Massachusetts that explains the rules, and objective to that year's game. A new game is developed each year by Dean Kamen, Woody Flowers, an M.I.T. graduate, and other M.I.T. graduates. Woody Flowers also does commentary and announcing for various competitions and the nationals, which are held in locations like Epcot Center Orlando, Florida, and the Astro Dome in Houston Texas.