NYC FIRST inspires and empowers students from diverse communities across New York City to engage with STEM and robotics in meaningful and joyful ways. NYC FIRST has worked with the NYC DOE to launch Gotham Tech, a district high school to showcase robotics as a vehicle for this empowerment, while imagining and planning additional innovations to help transform public education in New York City and beyond. Gotham Tech is a public school that launched in New York, NY in Fall 2022. The school intends to serve over 1,050 students at full enrollment across grades 6-12.