Our people
We’re More Than Robots – we’re a global movement of educators, industry pioneers and influencers.
We’re More Than Robots – we’re a global movement of educators, industry pioneers and influencers.
FIRST UK is only as impactful as the smart creatives driving it. Our small but mighty HQ team is supported by a network of champion orgs, trustees and advisors on a mission to make STEM more inclusive and less intimidating.
“We need to empower young people today to take on the challenges of tomorrow – to prepare them for jobs which haven’t been invented yet.”
Vikrant Bhargava, Founding Chair of Trustees
Patrice’s loves making sure we’re doing everything in our power to maximise our impact and work with phenomenal people to advance our mission. Working on our strategy and measuring our impact, she's obsessed with learning from our network and feeding knowledge back into the charity as we continue to evolve how we serve young people. When she’s not harping on about EDI, sharing inspiring insights, or speaking at events, you’ll find her hiking, mountain biking or pretending she knows how to ski with her adventure-loving family.
Propelling us forward, enacting our strategy and maximsing impact – our Board help us achieve more, better and sooner.
“As a Senior Leader, it’s important to engage with other schools locally. By working together and networking our D&T and computing departments, we’re strengthening provision across all our schools, helping students get more out of their experience and engaging students in STEM beyond our own school.
“Being a Champion Organisation offers opportunities to link to industry, which helps support the school towards reaching Gatsby benchmarks. The role helps us show our wider community that we’re more than just about exams and in our own context, we’re getting much higher engagement of girls picking tech and computing beyond Key Stage 3.”
Toby Osborne, Assistant Headteacher and Curriculum Lead, Bournemouth School for Girls
The bedrock of FIRST Tech Challenge. These experienced schools act as outreach partners, provide support to teams, serve as training and event venues – helping us maximise our impact regionally.