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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 Cham...
Posted 1 October 2024

Team Great Britain goes gold at FIRST Global!

Posted 5 July 2024

UK Inspire Award winner Ultraviolet is going global!

Posted 2 July 2024

Meet the CENTERSTAGE champions!

Posted 25 June 2024

Euros 2024 for robots

Posted 18 April 2024

10 explosive qualifiers launch 40 teams to UK Champs

Posted 23 January 2024

Team CalderDrones spills the beans on creating an award-winning game-day strategy

Posted 9 January 2024

Local scrimmages! An all-round win

Posted 9 January 2024

Team Ultraviolet’s pointers on becoming an award-winning rookie team

Posted 24 October 2023

Team Digital Pancakes’ tips for an award-winning season

Posted 24 October 2023

Team Ground X’s fundraising and outreach tips

Posted 7 September 2023

More Than an Apprentice – meet Rosie Lawrence our National Champs guest speaker

Posted 14 April 2023

More than a partnership

Posted 14 July 2022

Southeast Regional 2 2021-22 results

Posted 19 July 2021

Think Award Winner — Team F.R.I.T.E.S.

Posted 19 July 2021

Inspire Award Winner — Team GroundX

Posted 19 July 2021

Motivate Award Winner — Team Binary Bots

Posted 19 July 2021

Collins Aerospace Innovate award winner — Team CalderDrones

Posted 19 July 2021

Connect Award Winner — Team Snapwire

Posted 11 March 2021

Educational consultant opportunity

Posted 2 March 2021

Helping you navigate the season ahead

Posted 2 February 2021

Watch The Download 2020-21 Kick-off edition

Posted 20 January 2021

Dom’s strategy tips

Posted 17 December 2020

Let’s get kick-off readyyy!

Posted 2 December 2020

Impress the judges with these five engineering notebook principles

Posted 14 October 2020

Ideas to organise your team around Covid-19 safety measures

Posted 1 May 2020

Charities Minister urged to rethink furlough

Posted 9 April 2020

Surveying the impact of furlough and Covid-19 on charities

Posted 20 December 2019

Looking back on 2019

Posted 25 October 2019

Building a strong game strategy – a lesson from team Binary Bots

Posted 29 July 2019

‘I don’t like robots but that’s why I loved interning at FIRST UK’ confesses Jacob

Posted 17 July 2019

‘We truly do things that matter’ – Jasmine reflects on her FIRST internship

Posted 24 May 2019

Building the technologists of the future

Posted 18 March 2019

Robotics team share their ‘whirlwind of a journey’ ahead of global championship

Posted 11 March 2019

Tomorrow’s innovators get robot ready

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