About the Club
Our teams compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), a team-oriented robotics program — competing against nearly 200 high school teams in Florida and over 7,000 teams around the world. Teams design, build, and program robots while maintaining detailed engineering documentation.
Our History
From the beginning
- 2007 PHUHS Robotics begins with Team 506 at Palm Harbor University High School.
- 2010s The club expands with Teams 516 and 3101.
- 2019 Teams 3839 and 3830 join the club.
- 2023 Team 24702 joins, bringing membership to over 90 students.
Track Record
Where we are now
10×
World-level competition appearances in 11 years.
Every year
Consistently sending teams to state-level competitions.
Outreach
Community partnerships with MacDill Air Force Base, local libraries, and STEM festivals.
The Program
What is FTC?
FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) had its beginnings in 2005 and grew out of a need for a mid-level robotics program. Students learn to think like engineers: designing, building, and programming robots to compete head-to-head, while documenting the entire process in an engineering portfolio.
