Secondary students from Lisburn win UK basketball robot competition

Students from Friends' School in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, won the UK First Tech Challenge robotics competition. Their winning entry was a basketball-playing robot built by sixth-form students. The team took first place in the national contest.

Sixth-form students from Friends' School in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, achieved first place in the UK First Tech Challenge robotics competition, delivering victory with an unconventional invention – a robot that plays basketball.

First Tech Challenge is a national robotics competition for young people in which teams independently design, build and programme robots that must complete various tasks. This year, the Lisburn students managed to outperform their competitors with their basketball-playing robot, which was able to surpass other teams in both precision and speed.

The victory is a remarkable achievement for both the school and Northern Ireland as a whole, as it is a national competition with participating teams from across the UK. Robotics competitions are becoming increasingly popular among young people, as they develop engineering, programming and teamwork skills simultaneously.