After months of hard work, collaboration and grit, 380 young people, aged 12-18, stepped onto a national stage to be crowned champions at the FIRST Tech Challenge UK Championship in Cambridge held on Friday, 21 June.
Diverse teams from Wolverhampton to Newcastle-under-Lyme competed to showcase their hard work building a robot from scratch and overcoming the many obstacles that come with a challenge of such scale. Seven teams from the West Midlands took to the stage to compete amongst 42 of the UK’s top youth robotics teams at the FIRST Tech Challenge UK Championship.