Welcome to BSG Robotics
International and National Award-Winning Girls' Robotics Club
At BSG Robotics our Core Mission is Building Engineers of the Future. We are an all girls robotics, engineering and STEM Outreach club that aims to inspire the next generation of students in the engineering and tech sectors.
Founded in 2022, our club consists of six teams of students ranging from aged 11 to 18 supported by staff volunteers and Sixth Form student mentors. We meet throughout the week in our design technology department. In total around 80-100 girls participate in national competitions each year. In just three years our teams have won over 15 regional, national and international awards.
Supporting 30 school Clubs and Free STEM Sessions for Primaries
#morethanrobots
Supporting 100s Of Young People Across The Southwest
FIRST® Tech Challenge
Our club takes part in the UK’s most exciting robotics competition for secondary students, find out how we became UK Champions in 2024.
RTX Quadcopter Challenge
For the first time in 2025 we’ve entered a Y7 Quadcopter design team, students get to design drones to an annual brief.
FIRST® Global 2024
Find out about our students’ award-winning STEM journey to the international stage as they became the first all-girl team to represent the UK in robotics!
FIRST® UK SW Champion Org.
Supporting staff and young people in around 30 schools in our region with their own robotics provision in the FIRST ® Tech Challenge UK Competition!
Partner with us
Our club is always looking out for regional partnerships to further engage young people, in particular girls with engineering and tech – can you help?
Introducing FIRST’s 2025/26 Season Reveal
BSG Robotics | Our story
Our club takes part in FIRST ® TECH CHALLENGE, the world’s largest STEM competition for students and FIRST ® LEGO League. Currently we compete in regional competitions (that we host) and the FIRST ® TECH CHALLENGE UK National Competition held each year.
In our first year, we secured the UK National Championship THINK Award for engineering and became UK National Runners Up in the DESIGN and CONNECT Award categories, recognizing our robot design and community outreach. In our second year, we won the regional INSPIRE AWARD, followed by the 2024 UK INSPIRE Award at the national championships, earning us the national title.
Our most biggest and most extraordinary achievement came at the FIRST Global Challenge 2024 in Athens, where a group of our winners represented the UK on the international stage. Making history, they brought home the Katherine Johnson Award for Engineering Documentation, becoming the first UK team ever to win an individual team award at FIRST Global. This accomplishment reflects not only their technical skills but also their teamwork, problem-solving abilities, and ambition.
For the 24/25 Season – INTO THE DEEP we hosted our biggest regional event ever and won the SW INSPIRE Award alongside this qualifying or national championships for the third time out of three years. At Nationals in 2025 we achieved 2nd and 3rd in two different award categories.
However, our club is #morethanrobots. We focus on developing a wide range of skills in our students, enhancing their educational journey and inspiring them to consider STEM careers, particularly in mechanical, electrical, and software engineering. A true collaboration between our D&T and Computing Departments, BSG Robotics also partners with industry mentors to inspire students and deepen their understanding of real-world engineering. In the 2024/25 season we reached out to primary and secondary school partners for our club to engage 4,000 young people in outreach!
September 2022
Founded
BSG Robotics Founded
Started at BSG, aiming to recruit one team to the FIRST Tech Challenge UK
September 2022
Recruitment
Two teams created
We're overwhelmed with students wanting to join us, and register two teams for the 22/23 POWERPLAY Season - Team ULTRAVIOLET and Team Engenious
October 2022
Expanded
SW Hub is Created
We're offered the chance to be the Southwest UK, Champion Organisation to network and support teams in our region.
January 2023
First SW Scrimmage
We host our first Scrimmage
With the four teams in our region we host the first SW Scrimmage, this includes demonstrations from the army with military robots, it's a huge success.
March 2023
Our first competition
Our club enters its first FTC Tournament
We entered our first FTC regional tournament hosted in London, we won our first award and both our Rookie teams qualified for the National Championships.
May 2023
Community
Our community outreach begins
We begin our Primary STEM outreach programme designed and led by our students - we deliver this to over 250 local children
June 2023
POWERPLAY Champs
We win our first National Awards
In their Rookie Season -Team ULTRAVIOLET win three national awards, including becoming National THINK Award Winners for their engineering process and design.
September 2023
CENTERSTAGE
New FTC Season Begins
A brand new FIRST Tech Challenge Season begins. This year the robot game looks even more challenging!
October 2023
SW Expansion
SW Hub to 25 Teams
As the SW Champion Org. we lead the SW region expansion to 25 teams and over 400 students, including a third team in our own club - The Orange Bytes.
December 2023
Scrimmage
The biggest SW Scrimmage yet!
Our SW Scrimmage is bigger than ever with over 300 12-17 year olds attending from across the region.
March 2024
Regionals
We host our first Regional Event
We host the first SW Qualifying Tournament - it ends up being the 2nd biggest tournament of its size in the UK in the 23/24 season. All three of our teams win awards with Team UV winning a place in the National Championship for a 2nd Year!
May 2024
Filming
The BBC begin filming
Our Team UV puts themselves forward to be filmed by the BBC to make a programme on the competition. They begin following our team in the half term holiday in the run up to the champs 2024.
June 2024
Championship
Team UV become National Champions!
In just their second year, Team UV from BSG has taken the FTC UK world by storm by winning the CENTRESTAGE season at the National Championships at Cambridge university!... The first all-girl team to do it.
July 2024
TV Programme
We're on TV!
BBC Click Programme goes live on the 6th July on BBC iPlayer! Tune in to see our journey to the FTC UK Champs!
July 2024
FIRST Global
Selected as Team Great Britain
We're selected to represent the UK in the international FIRST Global Competition.
Sept 2024
Going for Gold
Win UK's first International Award at FIRST Global
Our all-girl FIRST Global Team took home the UK's first ever Gold Award in engineering.
We fully embrace the Core Values of FIRST® and get our students involved in planning & delivering STEM outreach in other schools, helping the community and trying to grow the FIRST® UK network in our region.
As the Southwest FIRST® UK Hub, we not only host a robot game field available for other local clubs to use but also provide support in other clubs starting, and supporting them in the FIRST® UK journey.
Gracious Professionalism®
We express the FIRST philosophies of Gracious Professionalism® and Coopertition® through our Core Values which we encourage at our Hub Events:
- Discovery: We explore new skills and ideas.
- Innovation: We use creativity and persistence to solve problems.
- Impact: We apply what we learn to improve our world.
- Inclusion: We respect each other and embrace our differences.
- Teamwork: We are stronger when we work together.
- Fun: We enjoy and celebrate what we do!
BSG Robotics. News and Events
Want to help inspire the next generation of stem leaders?
Contact us and see how we can help each other: bsgrobotics@bsg.bournemouth.sch.uk