#HighPeakYouthRobotics
High Peak Youth Robotics
In 2023, we were contacted by a group of young people about helping them set up a youth club so that they could participate in the FIRST Tech Challenge, a national robotics competition for 12-18 year olds. Robots are a bit of a detour away from Funny Wonders’ usual, traditional craft activities but, as it is a creative challenge (albeit a bit more high-tech than we’re used to) and we’d be supporting young people in our local community, we decided to go with it!
We set about designing the project and securing funding to deliver the project over the 2024/2025 academic year.
The FIRST Tech Challenge is a national scheme “committed to making science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) less intimidating, more diverse and inclusive with a vision of creating a world where young people are empowered to explore, challenge and grow into innovators, who will take on tomorrow’s challenges”. Find out more at firstuk.org/. It follows on from FIRST’s LEGO League, a competition for younger children. Local sessions for this are run at LEGO cafe, Brick Corner on South Avenue.
Thanks
The first year of High Peak Youth Robotics club has been made possible through funding from Herefordshire Community Foundation (Joanies Fund) plus further grants and donations from Buxton4Youth, Tarmac, Timpson, High Peak Mayoral Charity (Buxton & District) and Otter Controls Ltd. We are also in receipt of a bursary from FIRST UK to enable us to participate.
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