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Volunteering with FIRST Tech Challenge UK is More Than Robots

Our volunteers, who we like to call Game Changers, drive our programme. Without them, our events wouldn’t be possible and our impact wouldn’t be as powerful. They play a huge role in helpin...

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Game Changer Conference 2024-25 highlights

We recently wrapped up our Game Changer Conference at the National Robotarium in Edinburgh! The Game Changer Conference is our annual opportunity to train our A-Team Game Changers in their volunteer roles and prep our Champion Organisation Ambassadors ahead of our busy event season. It was just as much about upskilling them for our biggest […]

The secret’s in the strategy: advice from Blackout Robotics

During the 2023-24 CENTERSTAGE season, the incredible Blackout Robotics topped the division rankings and captained the Winning Alliance at the UK Championships. Every member of their team had two years of experience competing in FIRST Tech Challenge UK, and now they’re sharing the wisdom that got them to the top. Team unleashed  Team name: Blackout […]

Team Great Britain at FIRST Global

Team Great Britain goes gold at FIRST Global!

This is one for the books! Team Great Britain has made history and won gold at the 2024 FIRST Global Challenge, marking the first time a UK team has won an individual team award. After winning the National Inspire Award at the UK Championships in June, we surprised team Ultraviolet from Bournemouth School for Girls […]

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UK Inspire Award winner Ultraviolet is going global!

Our teams are great at thinking outside of the box. They dream big and have the drive to make things happen. They want to show the world what the UK STEM scene has to offer and the time has come for our incredible teams to take to the global stage. We surprised our Inspire Award […]

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FIRST Tech Challenge UK - South East Regional 2022-23

Meet the CENTERSTAGE champions!

Our CENTERSTAGE season came to an epic end with teams battling to be crowned national champions at the University of Cambridge. Bringing together the very best youth robotics teams from all four nations, the UK Championship did not disappoint. 42 teams took to the game field to put their carefully designed robots and well-thought-out strategies […]

Euros 2024 for robots

In case you missed it, one of the UK’s most significant sporting events of the calendar happened over the weekend. Teams from all four nations competed to be crowned UK champions. The champs is something they’d been training for since the season started in September, with grit, determination, courage, teamwork, and resilience all on display […]

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