TEAM33001SCHOOLWilson's School, Wallington
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We are a team of student engineers at Wilson’s School competing in FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC) UK—a national youth robotics championship. Every year, a brand-new game challenge is revealed worldwide. Over the course of a annual “Season” (September to Spring), we design, build, and program an autonomous and driver-controlled robot from scratch to compete against schools across the country.
Our first season brought three awards: Finalist Alliance and the Reach Award at Regionals, and the Sustain Award at Nationals.
How the competition works
FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) UK brings together hundreds of student teams to solve engineering challenges in a sports-like tournament format.
1. The Season Kickoff
In September, the annual game is revealed worldwide. Teams get just a few months to brainstorm, CAD, and build a robot from scratch.
2. Scrimmages (Practice Matches)
A scrimmage is an informal, low-stakes practice event! Teams bring early robot prototypes to test driving, discover design flaws, and practice alliance matches with zero pressure.
3. Qualifiers & Nationals
Official regional tournaments where team robots face off 2-vs-2 in timed arena matches to earn trophies and qualify for the UK National Championships.
What your money
actually does.
An FTC season runs on parts that wear out and parts that did not exist until we made them. Sponsorship is a small line in a marketing budget and a large line in ours: it is the difference between rebuilding a subsystem that failed and living with it for the rest of the season.
In return your name goes on our robot, kit and banners, in front of every team and judge we compete against. Sponsorship is shared with our senior team, Wilsobotics, so it supports both.
- Full official game field
- £1,500
- Control Hub
- £300
- Driver Hub
- £250
- Laser-cut metal plates
- £300
- 3D printer filament
- £200
Record & Achievements
Competition record33001
- Awards won
- 3
- Regionals
- 4th of 15
- Nationals
- 27th of 50
- Team size
- 17 students
FIRST® Tech ChallengeWilson's School · Wallington
DECODE · 2025–26
Our first season, and three awards: Finalist Alliance and the Reach Award at Regionals, and the Sustain Award at Nationals.
Every event and result
Won at Regionals for expanding STEM outreach and running school clubs.
Secured during high-stakes regional match playoffs.
Competing and winning recognition at the UK National Championship.
The machine
Beyond
the robot.
The team runs clubs across the school every week, from Junior Robotics to the KS4 Coding Club, and won the Reach Award for it at Regionals.
- Students across both FTC teams
- 35
- Junior Robotics, Years 8–10
- 40
- Students in the other clubs we run
- 75
- Students reached every week
- 150
Talk to us.
Email us with any question, or for more detail on the teams and the robot. If you supply parts or materials, tell us what they are and we will tell you where they would go.