Heritage Competes in RoboCon 2025

Heritage alumnus and former Head Boy Silas helped to run a RoboCon event at Hills Road Sixth Form College and he invited Heritage to take part. RoboCon is designed to be an accessible robotics competition for pupils in Years 9 to 11, which provides an opportunity to foster teamwork skills as well as have fun with robots! Mr Bonsor-Matthews mentored two teams, who committed to meeting weekly over the past two terms, as they learned how to build and program robots to take part in the competition. The event ran over a couple of days during the Easter Holidays, on 9th and 10th April. The pupils experienced many highs and lows as they competed against ten other teams from the Cambridge area and they had a brilliant time.

Angus, Liberty, Matthew, Rupert and Socrates brought a working robot which gradually improved during the competition and managed to make it through to the semi-finals thanks to a good team effort.

Caitlin, Dylan, Emily and Tobias overcame huge challenges: on the first day, their width was found to be too wide and on the second morning their length too long, along with issues with their arm attachment, which all required a lot of rework. In spite of all these challenges, they were strong favourites going into the qualifiers. Very unluckily, their robot got tangled up with another robot so didn’t have a chance to score well; however, the team was awarded the perseverance prize in recognition of their determination and extreme efforts to get their robot working – a well deserved reward!

Mr Bonsor-Matthews says ‘all nine of the pupils should feel very proud of their efforts in this challenging event’.

You can read more about the competition on the RoboCon website: https://robocon.uk/news/robocon-2025-review/.