The learning has begun for Manchester students taking part in the city’s inaugural FIRST ® Junior STEAM Ahead program. After several months of planning, Beech Street School, Green Acres and Jewett Street School are bringing the popular FIRST ® LEGO ® League (FLL ® ) program into fourth grade classrooms. FIRST Junior STEAM Ahead is expected to enhance science and math curriculum like never before. The creation of FIRST Junior STEAM Ahead happened with support from FIRST ® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an international not-for-profit public charity based in Manchester that motivates young people to pursue education and career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math. FIRST has been encouraging young people's interest and participation in those subjects for more than 25 years, since it was founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1989. As part of the FIRST Junior STEAM Ahead program, each fourth grade classroom will participate i...