Industrial scale
FRC robots are larger, heavier and more complex than FTC robots. Students work with substantial mechanisms, power systems, sensors, code, fabrication, testing and competition operations.
Founding Season · FRC Team #11717
ReBourne Robotics
29 girls. One pioneering FRC team. Europe next.
ReBourne is BSG Robotics’ 29-student FIRST Robotics Competition team, FRC #11717: the UK’s only all-girl FRC team, the only FRC team from South West England and the only current UK state-school FRC entry. In Spring 2027, the team will compete in Eindhoven, Netherlands, while ReBourne Futures takes hands-on STEM outreach to around 2,000 primary pupils.
Eindhoven is a Go!
Team #11717 will compete in the Netherlands this Spring
31.03–04.04.27
0Students in ReBourne FRC Team #11717
0BSG Robotics members in 2026/27
0Regional, national & international awards
0Primary pupils targeted through ReBourne Futures this year
Founding partners supporting ReBourne
Strategic Solutions
Superior
System 01 · Our Story
A school team with serious scale.
ReBourne grows from BSG Robotics, the UK’s largest all-girl school robotics club. Founded in 2022, the programme now supports 134 students across a pathway from FIRST LEGO League and FIRST Tech Challenge to the FIRST Robotics Competition.
The next chapter of BSG Robotics
BSG Robotics was founded in 2022 and has grown into a 134-student programme spanning AirBourne, StarBourne and ReBourne. The club has won 21 regional, national and international awards across robotics, drone and coding competitions, while supporting schools and pupils across the region through outreach, mentoring and FIRST community activity.
A proven all-girl STEM programme with a strong identity and track record.
A growing network of employers, industry supporters and university links.
A clear FIRST pathway from FLL to FTC and now FRC, taking students from first builds to industrial-scale robotics.
A platform for students to practise engineering, leadership and communication in public, competitive and technical settings.
Welcome to FRC
Bigger game field, bigger robots, bigger ambitions — and a route to international competition.
System 02 · What is FRC?
The next level of school robotics.
FIRST Robotics Competition is one of the world’s most ambitious school-age engineering programmes. Student teams design, manufacture, wire, programme and compete with industrial-sized robots in a new challenge released each January. Only four UK teams competed in FRC in 2026, making ReBourne part of a very small national community.
Mentor supported
Teams work alongside adult mentors from education, engineering and technology. Students experience the kind of collaborative problem-solving used in real technical workplaces.
International competition
Team #11717 will compete in Eindhoven, Netherlands, from 31 March to 4 April 2027, placing 29 students on an international stage alongside ambitious teams from across the FIRST community.
FIRST Robotics Competition in action
System 03 · Why ReBourne?
A pioneering UK team. Built here in the South West.
ReBourne is the UK’s only all-girl FRC team, the only FRC team from South West England and the only current UK state-school FRC entry. Its 29 students are building a new pathway into advanced engineering while preparing to represent their school and region in Eindhoven in Spring 2027.
Flagship
The Sixth Form destination point for BSG Robotics: a visible, high-ambition programme that shows what young women can do when given serious tools, serious trust and serious opportunities.
STEM FuturesPathway
A next step from FTC into a larger, faster, more demanding robotics environment, connecting school enrichment with university study, apprenticeships, industry and engineering careers.
Next LevelStage
From 31 March to 4 April 2027, ReBourne will take its place in Eindhoven: competing, presenting, problem-solving and showing what a UK all-girl state-school robotics team can do on an international stage.
Eindhoven 2027
Back 11717 · Founding season campaign
£11,717 target. Back 11717.
Our founding-season Crowdfunder target is £11,717 — matching Team #11717. Every contribution helps us build the robot, compete in Eindhoven and extend ReBourne Futures outreach to around 2,000 primary pupils.
£1 Founding Backer
£11 Founding Supporter
£117 Founding Sponsor
£1,171 Founding Partner
System 04 · ReBourne Futures
One programme. Two missions.
ReBourne Robotics is the competition team. ReBourne Futures is the outreach, leadership and regional impact programme that grows from it. Together, they create BSG Robotics’ next-level pathway for girls in engineering.
Powered by ReBourne Robotics
From all-girl FRC to regional STEM leadership
ReBourne is the UK’s only all-girl FIRST Robotics Competition team: a 29-student flagship route into advanced robotics, engineering, computing and technical leadership. ReBourne Futures makes its impact bigger than one competition team by turning students into mentors, role models and outreach leaders for younger pupils and partner schools.
Build
Students design, build, programme and operate large-scale FRC robots, developing real skills in mechanical engineering, CAD, electronics, autonomous systems, computer vision, coding, strategy and safety.
Lead
Students take responsibility for subteams, communication, sponsors, documentation, mentoring and delivery, developing the leadership and project skills valued by universities and employers.
Reach
Through ReBourne Futures, students deliver free STEM outreach, robotics inspiration, coding activities and engineering role-modelling for schools across Bournemouth, Dorset and the South Coast.
Grow
The programme will help develop a regional mentoring model for school STEM clubs, supporting teachers and students who want to start or strengthen robotics, coding and engineering enrichment.
What this unlocks
ReBourne Futures builds on the success of BSG Robotics, the UK’s largest all-girl robotics programme. This next stage strengthens the full school pathway, extends our outreach and creates a visible model for girls’ engineering leadership locally, regionally and nationally.
134
BSG Robotics members across the 2026/27 pathway
2,000
Primary pupils targeted through ReBourne Futures this year
30+
Schools supported through outreach and regional robotics activity
21
Regional, national and international awards already achieved
Free robotics, coding and engineering activities for younger pupils.
Student role models showing girls that engineering is creative, ambitious and possible.
Mentoring for school STEM clubs across the region.
A national example of what an all-girl robotics pathway can become.
For students
ReBourne students gain technical depth, confidence and leadership through real engineering responsibility, then use those skills to mentor and inspire younger pupils.
Leadership
Mentoring
Engineering
For schools
Partner schools gain access to student-led outreach, STEM club support, practical robotics inspiration and a growing regional network of robotics expertise.
Outreach
STEM clubs
Resources
For partners
Corporate and university partners can support equipment, mentoring, careers, workplace links, work experience and visible regional STEM impact.
Volunteering
Careers
Work experience
Corporate mentoring that changes the pathway
ReBourne Futures creates meaningful volunteering opportunities for engineers, technologists, project managers and STEM professionals. Partners can support students through technical mentoring, design reviews, coding guidance, careers talks, workplace visits, mock interviews, work experience routes and outreach events that help young people connect school robotics with real STEM futures.
BUMentoring Computing · Engineering · 2026/27 programme
System 05 · University-linked support
Mentored by computing and engineering expertise.
Bournemouth University mentors from computing and engineering are supporting ReBourne through the 2026/27 programme, bringing university-level technical thinking into the team’s development.
Students gain access to technical thinking beyond the normal school curriculum.
Computing support strengthens programming, systems, sensors, simulation, data and autonomous control.
Engineering support strengthens design, prototyping, mechanisms, testing, manufacturing choices and iterative improvement.
Mentoring helps students speak the language of university, industry and technical project work.
The programme creates visible links between school robotics, higher education and local STEM employers.
System 06 · Team architecture
Build. Control. Impact.
ReBourne’s 29 students are structured like a serious robotics team. They specialise, lead, collaborate and contribute across BUILD, CONTROL and IMPACT.
BUILD
Mechanical Design
- Drivetrain and chassis
- Mechanisms and manipulators
- CAD and prototyping
- Fabrication and assembly
- Testing, repair and pit readiness
- Robot safety and quality assurance
CONTROL
Coding and Systems
- Robot programming
- Autonomous routines
- Driver controls
- Sensors and electronics
- Vision and AprilTags
- Telemetry, simulation and debugging
IMPACT
Operations and Outreach
- Game strategy and scouting
- Sponsors and partnerships
- Budget and logistics
- Health, safety and documentation
- Awards, media and communications
- Year-round team operations
Team Captains
The BUILD Lead, CONTROL Lead and IMPACT Lead form the ReBourne Team Captains: a leadership trio responsible for communication across subteams, team standards, competition readiness and whole-team success.
System 07 · Student benefits
A springboard to the real world.
ReBourne is designed to help students grow as young engineers, coders, communicators, organisers and leaders. The robot is the challenge. The personal development is the point.
Skills
CAD, programming, fabrication, testing, data, design thinking, documentation, presentation and project delivery.
Knowledge
Students build understanding of mechanisms, controls, electronics, software systems, safety, strategy and engineering trade-offs.
Networking
Students meet mentors, university staff, industry partners, other teams and adults working in real STEM sectors.
Communication
Students explain technical ideas clearly to judges, sponsors, peers, mentors, parents and the wider community.
Experience
Students learn through pressure, deadlines, competition, teamwork, failure, iteration and visible public achievement.
System 08 · Founding season campaign
BACK 11717
Team #11717 is built. Now we are backing its founding season. Our Crowdfunder target is £11,717 — matching our team number — to help 29 students build an FRC robot, compete in Eindhoven and deliver ReBourne Futures outreach to around 2,000 primary pupils.
£11,717
Back 11717 campaign target
The target supports three connected priorities: BUILD the robot and equip the team, COMPETE at the Eindhoven regional in Spring 2027, and INSPIRE younger pupils through ReBourne Futures.
What your support funds
Build. Compete. Inspire.
BuildRobot parts, tools, electronics, batteries, spares and equipment for Team #11717.
CompeteCompetition and travel costs for the team’s Spring 2027 Eindhoven regional.
InspireReBourne Futures outreach designed to reach around 2,000 primary pupils this year.
Founding Backer
Join the founding season and have your name added to the digital Founding Supporters Wall.
Founding Supporter
Receive a personalised supporter certificate, recognition in our inaugural-season record and inclusion in a supporter thank-you.
Founding Sponsor
Business recognition across our pit banner and website, robot branding subject to available space, a signed team photo and founding-season keepsakes. Business supporters also receive the fortnightly ReBourne Brief.
Founding Partner
Our highest public tier: selected team-kit branding, an exclusive robot reveal, a signed ReBourne team polo or supporter shirt and an invitation to visit a build session.
Every contribution becomes part of Team 11717’s founding story
From a £1 Founding Backer to a £1,171 Founding Partner, the campaign is designed so anyone can take part. Reward images used on Crowdfunder are indicative and final items may vary slightly in appearance. Businesses can also support ReBourne through equipment, expertise, mentoring and in-kind contributions.
System 09 · Recognition pathway
Optional Gold CREST route.
Students who want to take their work further may be able to shape their FRC contribution into a Gold CREST Award project, using the robot season as the foundation for a substantial investigation, design challenge or technical development project.
BUILD students could investigate mechanisms, materials, drivetrain choices, reliability, prototyping or design optimisation.
CONTROL students could explore autonomous movement, vision processing, sensor systems, control loops, simulation or data-led testing.
IMPACT students could develop research-rich projects around team operations, outreach impact, strategy systems, logistics, safety processes or STEM engagement.
GoldCREST Optional student project pathway
System 10 · Roadmap
From launch to Europe.
ReBourne has moved from launch into its founding season: 29 students are training now, the FRC game is revealed in January, and Team #11717 competes in Eindhoven in Spring 2027.
Autumn 2026
ReBourne launches with 29 students through Sixth Form enrichment. BUILD, CONTROL and IMPACT begin technical training, partner engagement, prototyping and team systems.
9 January 2027
The new FRC game is revealed. Students analyse the challenge, define strategy, prototype mechanisms and begin the full build season.
Jan–Mar 2027
Design, build, code, test, iterate and prepare. The team works across BUILD, CONTROL and IMPACT to move from concept to competition-ready robot.
31 Mar–4 Apr 2027
Team #11717 travels to Eindhoven, Netherlands, for its first FRC regional — competing internationally in its founding season.
Partners & supporters
Strategic Solutions
Superior
RAR Automation UK
Yunex Traffic
MergeIT
System 11 · Partners
Partners already building with us.
Strategic Solutions and Superior are ReBourne’s founding partners, alongside a growing network of organisations contributing funding, equipment, expertise and opportunity. We are continuing to build that network as the Back 11717 campaign works towards its £11,717 target.
Fund the programme through contributions towards registration, robot parts, equipment and competition preparation.
Equip students through tools, laptops, materials, components or access to useful technical resources.
Enable the team through mentoring, training, workplace links, technical expertise or useful connections.
Support the UK’s only all-girl FRC team, the only FRC team from South West England and a state-school team competing internationally.
Help develop engineering, computing, leadership, communication and project-management experience.
Strengthen ReBourne Futures and the wider regional STEM pathway around the team.