Who we are
We are the Upper School Robotics club of the International School of Prague: more than 20 members of all ages and nationalities, building robots since 2012.
Built by students
The club began in 2012, when an ISP student took the initiative to start it. Robotics has since grown in popularity at our school and spread from the Upper School to the Middle and Elementary Schools.
In 2016 FalconTech won the Inspire Award, one of only two of the seven awards that qualified a team for the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship. That made ISP the only school representing the Czech Republic at Worlds in St. Louis, and it was the first time our school had been invited.
We are a student-led team. Experienced upperclassmen lead, younger members learn by doing, and everyone builds, codes, drives, documents and does outreach together. Girls are an integral part of the club, which proves that robotics is not only a boys' world.
Outside competitions we share STEM with our community: we've written children's books about science and technology, run robotics sessions with Lower School students, demonstrated our robots at Maker Faire Prague and the Library Expo, and spoken about our journey at TEDx.
Our values
We take things apart to see how they work, and we keep going until they work the way we want them to.
Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition. In St. Louis a rival team lent us a part when our design was ruled illegal, and we try to pay that forward.
Engineering notebooks, CAD, testing, re-testing, and lots of Saturdays in the Loft.
Team logos through the years
Every ISP team has designed its own identity.
Our story
Highlights from more than a decade of robotics at ISP.
- 2012
The club starts
An ISP student starts the Upper School robotics club.
- 2013FLL
FalconTech Middle School
A LEGO Mindstorms club for younger students, with a FIRST LEGO League team.
- 2015FTC
ISP hosts CEESA FTC
The regional FIRST Tech Challenge tournament comes to Prague.
- 2016FTC
Inspire Award & St. Louis
We win the Inspire Award and compete at the FTC World Championship.
- 2017–18FTC
Five teams
The club grows to five teams and five robots.
- 2018FGC
Team Czechia
ISP represents Czechia at the FIRST Global Challenge for the first time, in Mexico City.
- 2024FGC
Athens
14 students represent Czechia at FGC 2024.
- 2025FGC · FTC
Panama & Hasselt
27th in the world at FGC Panama, and the Sustain Award in Belgium.
- 2026FGC
Incheon
Team Czechia heads to South Korea.