We Build More Than Robots®
We’re a robotics-based, industry-linked education and careers accelerator, equipping young people with the essential skills to engineer better futures.
The robotics programme built on industry
Part of a global movement engaging nearly 650K young people worldwide, FIRST® Tech Challenge uses robots, role models and competition to give young people aged 12-18 six months of hands-on, industry-linked experience.
Building More Than Robots®
Teams of young people design, build and code a robot to compete in tournaments and earn awards – developing essential skills whilst creating lifelong opportunities.
Connecting with industry
Using the latest tech to solve real-world challenges whilst interacting with industry role models – our programme bridges the classroom of today with the workplace of tomorrow.
Improving access
We provide equipment bursaries and travel awards to make robotics-based, industry-linked skills development accessible to those who’ll benefit most.
Bee curious!
Take part in the UK’s most ambitious student robotics programme, where this year’s buzzing theme focuses on engineering solutions to biodiversity.
“FIRST Tech Challenge enables our academies to deliver an engaging enrichment programme, career development opportunities and supports the STEM curriculum. The quality and reach of their programme is unrivalled.”
Jemima Waltho, National Enrichment Lead, Ormiston Academies Trust
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The Skills Builder Partnership includes 600+ schools and colleges, 200+ impact organisations and 100+ top employers – working collectively towards the mission that one day, everyone will build the essential skills to succeed. Their work is underpinned by the Skills Builder Universal Framework, which shows how to build essential skills at every stage of life.
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Purposeful Ventures partners with social entrepreneurs and philanthropists to improve the education and well-being of young people from their earliest years. They do this by selecting, accelerating and, where they find a gap, incubating organisations which tackle particular issues. Purposeful Ventures tests and scales effective solutions and influences system change.
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UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), working to support science, research and business innovation in the UK.
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The Department for Science, Innovation & Technology accelerates innovation, investment and productivity through world-class science, driving forward a modern digital government for the UK.
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The Rigby Foundation supports programmes that enable young people, regardless of their background, to access the best education possible and have the chance of securing meaningful and sustainable employment. Through Inspiring Futures, the Foundation aims to nurture and support young people from central and south Birmingham into work.
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CREST is the British Science Association’s scheme for STEM project work that inspires young people to think and behave like scientists and engineers.
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Industrial Cadets is a nationally recognised scheme connecting young people with employers to run accredited experiences across the UK.
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Established in 1958, the Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded grant-maker that gives money to support a wide variety of charities across the UK. Since it was established, it has donated over £1.5 billion, of which over half has been given away in the past 10 years.
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RTX is accelerating ideas to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges by bringing together the brightest, most innovative minds across aerospace and defense. They push the limits of known science and redefine how we connect and protect our world.
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The Department for Education’s vision is for an education system that prepares young people for life in modern Britain, regardless of their background or where they grow up.
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The Gene Haas Foundation was established in 1999, by Gene Haas, founder and owner of Haas Automation, Inc., to support the needs of the local community.
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From mail sorting technology to helping build the UK’s first commercial spaceport, to supporting the UK’s strategic deterrent building key parts of every F-35, Lockheed Martin UK supports the UK’s defence, security and prosperity.
By paying the real Living Wage, employers are voluntarily taking a stand to ensure their employees can earn a wage which is enough to live on.
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We are engineers, scientists and strategists. We come from diverse cultures and have unique perspectives. We focus on a single goal – invent mobile technology breakthroughs.
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Arm architects the pervasive intelligence. Arm-based chips and device architectures orchestrate the performance of the technology.
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Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas.
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