BSG Robotics students represented the United Kingdom internationally, taking the confidence and technical experience built through FTC onto a global platform.
2024 • Athens • Team GB
FIRST GLOBAL
How the UK’s first all-girl team became international award winners.
Representing the United Kingdom at the FIRST Global Challenge 2024, BSG Robotics students travelled to Athens to compete with teams from across the world - combining engineering, coding, teamwork, outreach and the confidence to represent their country on a global stage.
Achievement 01 • International recognition
A UK first. A global moment.
The team won the Katherine Johnson Award for Engineering Documentation at the FIRST Global Challenge 2024 in Athens - a landmark achievement for Team Great Britain and a powerful example of what BSG Robotics students can do.
Award announcement
Watch the moment Team Great Britain was recognised with the Katherine Johnson Award for Engineering Documentation.
The award recognised the quality of the team’s engineering documentation, design thinking, decision-making and ability to communicate a technical journey clearly.
Against a huge international field, the team stood out for robot design, teamwork, creativity, problem-solving and the way they represented young people in STEM.
Off the back of the trip, the team used the achievement as a platform for talks, STEM conferences and outreach that reached 4,000 primary school children across 2024/25.
Challenge 02 • Feed the Future
The world’s robotics stage.
FIRST Global brings students from across the world together through a shared robotics challenge. The 2024 event took place in Athens, Greece, with national teams competing, collaborating and using STEM to explore global challenges.
For BSG Robotics, this was more than a competition. It was a full STEM experience: fundraising, media, outreach, robot preparation, engineering documentation, international travel and representing the UK with pride.
Athens 2024
A city with Olympic history became the backdrop for a global celebration of STEM, engineering and international collaboration.
Media 03 • Video archive
The media wall.
From the award announcement to interviews, event highlights and the 2024 theme, this media wall brings the full FIRST Global story together in one place.
Award announcement
The moment Team Great Britain was recognised with the Katherine Johnson Award for Engineering Documentation.
What is FIRST Global?
A clear explainer for parents, students and partners who are new to the scale and purpose of the FIRST Global Challenge.
Team intro video
Introducing the students, story and Team GB identity.
Interview with MP Tom Hayes
Local recognition and civic pride in the team’s international achievement.
Greek TV interview
International media coverage from the event. Use YouTube auto-translate if needed.
2024 FGC recap
The wider event story: Change the World.
2024 FGC highlights
Competition atmosphere, teams, field action and global energy.
Feed the Future
The 2024 theme and global challenge context.
Gallery 04 • The journey
More than robots. More than one moment.
Team 05 • Meet the engineers
Team Great Britain. BSG built.
A national team built from BSG Robotics talent: drivers, ambassadors, mechanical engineers and software engineers working together under international pressure.
Emily
Ambassador & Driver
Caitlyn
Team Captain and Mechanical Engineer
Gizem
Mechanical Engineer
Dani
Mechanical Engineer & Driver
Ella
Software Engineer
Legacy 06 • Why it matters
From one team. To a regional movement.
The FIRST Global achievement became a launchpad for outreach, conferences and talks — helping thousands of younger pupils see that robotics, engineering and global STEM opportunities are real, visible and open to them.
FTC foundation
Team Ultraviolet’s national FTC success helped create the route to Team Great Britain, proving that sustained club experience can prepare students for international engineering challenges.
Global stage
The Athens competition gave students a rare combination of technical challenge, national representation, media engagement, travel and international collaboration.
Local impact
The story gave younger students a visible pathway: start with robotics in school, build technical confidence, compete nationally and step onto an international stage.
Primary outreach
Following the Athens trip, the girls took the story into talks and STEM conferences, using the achievement as a platform to inspire 4,000 primary school children in 2024/25.
Next chapter
The legacy now supports the wider BSG Robotics pathway: AirBourne, StarBourne, ReBourne and continued outreach across the region.
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