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What I learned game announcing
Across our qualifiers, our Youth Ambassadors have been taking to the mics, hyping the crowd and announcing winning alliances.
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Meet the 2024-25 trophy designers
At FIRST Tech Challenge UK, innovation isn’t just about robots. It’s about creativity, problem-solving and teamwork. This year, we provided our teams with a brand-new challenge: design the trophies for our regional qualifying tournaments. Our trophy design competition invited teams to showcase their creative thinking and product design talents. Provided with a brief on size, […]
Keep up the mid-season momentum!
We’re in the midst of our qualifying tournaments and there’s plenty more for teams to get involved in. Whether you’re preparing for champs or working to improve for next year, our 2023-24 Regional Motivate Award Winners are here to offer their advice to keep the momentum going! HBK Robodeers – Hinchingbrooke School – UK-328 […]
Let the qualifying tournaments begin!
It’s qualifier season! The big day has finally arrived when we kick off the INTO THE DEEP tournaments and we couldn’t be more excited. They’re shaping up to be our biggest, best and most community-driven events yet. Our electric events calendar From Belfast to Bournemouth, we’re touching down in schools and science centres across the […]
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Team Subnautics unveil their STEM community outreach
We say the challenge is More Than Robots for a good reason! Outreach is a big part of FIRST Tech Challenge UK and it’s something a lot of teams really thrive at. Every way that teams bring their community into the challenge is unique and we love shouting about it! Team Subnautics may be a […]
More Than Imagery
Check out our gallery and get up close to the bots at our tournaments.
A scrimmage season like no other
Scrimmages are one of the first opportunities for the community to come together in person and share ideas. During our scrimmages across December and January, teams have been innovating their robots and gaining confidence in their own abilities to compete. They have well and truly impressed us not only with their engineering approaches but also […]
Insider tips to level up your team’s branding
Our Youth Ambassadors Ben and Jack from DeGreeS of Freedom are whizzes when it comes to social media, branding and online outreach. So far this season, they’ve organised a media workshop to share their top tips and tricks and have collaborated with international teams to create a short film about the challenge. Check out their […]
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