Building the Future with Accu Components: Norwood Industries’ FTC Journey

 

We are Norwood Industries, the No. 1 ranked UK First Tech Challenge® (FTC) robotics team. Each year, our team of 12 students (aged 11–16) competes against more than 500 teams across the UK and over 5,000 teams globally. The challenge? To design, manufacture, and program a fully functional robot capable of completing a series of tasks set by the FTC game committee. OVERVIEW This season, we were proud to partner with Accu Components, who generously sponsored us with £250 worth of fasteners. These components were vital to assembling our robot, which includes over 1,000 fasteners and features five advanced subsystems—our most complex build to date.

Please download the attached below to catch up on all our successes.

 

Please Donate to our Norwood Robot Fund  and check out Norwood Industries 21196 - Season Recap - 2024-25 video below.

                                        

 

We are Norwood Industries 21196, a dynamic team of students at The Norwood School in South London who are mad about robotics.

We designed and built an amazing robot by teaching ourselves coding and developing engineering skills.

 

For 2 years running, we have been in the Winning Alliance and Championship Winner of the First Tech Challenge competition, beating 500 teams from across the UK. We have also won numerous other awards as well as supported teams at home and in other countries with our outreach programme.

 

We have raised funds through sponsorship, appeals and school donations so far, but with budget cuts we will not be able to compete next season unless we find other sources of funding.

 

So we are asking for your pledges to take us to the next level.

Our goals for next season:

• To build our robot for the next competition with a kit of spares parts

• To train a new team as our Founder Members are moving on

• To build an army of Outreach members to raise funds and share our love of robotics

 

You can help us by pledging now. 

Or donate on GoFundme: Norwood Robot Fund