After excelling in careers at Microsoft, Amazon and Meta, University of Michigan alum and renowned video game engineer Leon Pryor (BS EE 1997) co-founded The Motor City Alliance, a 501c3 that works with over 70 Metro Detroit elementary and middle school teams annually to help them compete and win national robotics competitions — FIRST® Robotics.

FIRST® Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a program where school teams design and build robots to compete in an annual contest. Each team is given a basic robotics kit, but it’s up to them to decide how to approach the design and what components to use. Pryor first became involved by advising his son's robotics team, and since then, his influence has helped students both grow in their interests and achieve competitive success.

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