More than 125 students involved across the school. BSG Robotics gives girls a complete progression route through FIRST LEGO League, FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics Competition — with many more students contributing through mentoring, outreach, support and wider innovation activity.
BSG Robotics has grown from two teams in 2022 into a ten-team all-girl programme involving more than 125 students across the school. Students can enter in Year 7, progress through increasingly demanding robotics and eventually reach industrial-scale FRC in Sixth Form.
Each stage is deliberately different. AirBourne builds the foundations. StarBourne develops competitive engineering and team identity. ReBourne moves students into large-scale robotics, specialist subteams, university mentoring and international ambition. Older students mentor younger teams, so the pathway becomes self-reinforcing.
Six house teams of ten form the AirBourne Interhouse Robotics League. Students build and code autonomous LEGO robots, complete the BIOGLOW Innovation Project and develop teamwork, presentation and engineering habits. Two teams progress to the regional FLL event at Beaulieu Motor Museum.
StarBourne is the competitive middle of the pathway: metal robots, mechanisms, coding, game strategy, judging, outreach and regional competition. Nova, Eclipse and Orbit also provide student mentors to the six AirBourne teams.
BSG Robotics' next-level engineering programme and the UK's only all-girl FRC team: industrial-scale robotics, BUILD / CONTROL / IMPACT subteams, Bournemouth University mentoring, ReBourne Futures outreach and the ambition to compete in Europe in Spring 2027.
A visible route from first LEGO build to FRC-scale engineering, with increasing responsibility, complexity and leadership at every stage.
Distinct teams, house identities, shared events and older-student mentoring create a club culture where students feel part of something bigger.
Competition, judging, outreach, travel, public speaking, technical deadlines and industry contact turn school enrichment into memorable real-world experience.
Students connect technical skills with university, apprenticeships and STEM careers through mentors, partners, workplace links and meaningful responsibility.
We want students to leave BSG Robotics able to say more than “I like STEM”. We want them to have built, coded, failed, fixed, presented, mentored, competed and led.
BSG Robotics combines scale with a proven record of competitive success, outreach and student innovation. Awards matter because they evidence the quality of the work — but the bigger goal is what students are able to do because of the programme.
The programme begins with two teams and a mission to make ambitious competitive robotics visible and accessible to girls.
Students earn the UK National THINK Award and national runner-up recognition in CONNECT and DESIGN.
ULTRAVIOLET becomes FTC UK National Champion through the INSPIRE Award. BSG students then represent Great Britain at FIRST Global in Athens and win Gold through the Katherine Johnson Award.
Hub support, outreach and events expand BSG Robotics beyond its own teams and help more schools access competitive robotics.
AirBourne expands to six FLL teams, StarBourne runs three FTC teams, ReBourne launches FRC #11717 and the programme reaches 21 awards.
Electric BlueZ, a BSG Robotics Sixth Form team, created SHEild: a smart drink-safety system built around Raspberry Pi technology to support women’s safety in social environments.
The team won the Years 12–13 Inspiration Award at the 2026 PA Raspberry Pi Competition and also received the Social Media Award for their wider campaign.
This year's biodiversity-themed FIRST season gives the entire club a shared context while each programme tackles a different level of engineering challenge.
Six Year 7 house teams explore ecosystems through autonomous LEGO robotics, research and the Innovation Project.
Three FTC teams combine competitive engineering with outreach, judging and the wider biodiversity story.
FRC #11717 takes the pathway into large-scale robotics, technical specialism, university mentoring and international competition.
BSG Robotics uses its experience to help more schools succeed: sharing knowledge, mentoring teams, hosting events and connecting young people with engineers, universities and the wider FIRST community.
Our South Coast hub activity helps reduce the isolation of starting a robotics team and builds a stronger regional community around competitive STEM.
ReBourne is not only the competition team. ReBourne Futures turns Sixth Form students into mentors, role models and outreach leaders — extending free robotics, coding and engineering inspiration to younger pupils and partner schools across Bournemouth, Dorset and the South Coast.
BSG students represented Great Britain in Athens and won Gold through the Katherine Johnson Award for Engineering Documentation.
Read the FGC storySix fully subscribed house teams bring 60 Year 7 students into competitive robotics, with older FTC students mentoring the next generation.
Explore AirBourneThe Sixth Form flagship: industrial-scale engineering, university-linked mentoring, international ambition and a platform for regional STEM leadership.
Meet ReBourneFRC #11717 is the destination point of the BSG Robotics pathway — a UK all-girl team preparing for the scale, pressure and opportunity of FIRST Robotics Competition.
Students specialise through BUILD, CONTROL and IMPACT subteams, developing mechanical engineering, CAD, fabrication, electronics, autonomous systems, computer vision, programming, project management, sponsor relationships, documentation and outreach. Bournemouth University mentors support computing and engineering development.
A visible progression route from Year 7 LEGO robotics to a 50–70 kg competition robot, international competition and serious technical responsibility.
Partners do more than put a logo on a robot. They help students connect school robotics with real engineering, workplaces, careers and technical standards — through funding, equipment, mentoring, visits, expertise and introductions.
The partner network supporting the flagship FRC programme also strengthens the wider BSG Robotics pathway. Current founding partners featured on ReBourne include Strategic Solutions, Superior, RAR Automation UK, Yunex Traffic and MergeIT, alongside Bournemouth University mentoring.