Competitions · FalconTech 11041

FIRST Global Challenge

Team Czechia 🇨🇿 · 2018–2026

The FIRST Global Challenge is an Olympic-style robotics event. Each nation sends one student team, and teams from more than 190 countries build robots around a global theme: energy, oceans, food, the environment. Each year, the team is made up of students from across the ISP robotics club.

Team Czechia website →

Team Czechia 2024 in front of ISP with the Czech flag — Team Czechia 2024, before Athens.

Oct 2026Incheon, South Korea

FGC 2026 · Incheon

Team Czechia is back on the world stage.

Upcoming

Oct–Nov 2025Panama City, Panama

FGC 2025 · Eco Equilibrium

We competed against teams from more than 190 nations.

Ranked 27th

May 2025Bratislava, Slovakia

FIRST Global Slovakia 2025

The national round at Aurelium, with about 100 students from 15 Slovak schools. We divided our team into three smaller teams and had three robots.

2nd place

Sep 2024Athens, Greece

FGC 2024 · Feeding the Future

14 ISP students competed in the Olympic Stadium, with support from the Czech Embassy in Athens.

Jun 2024Košice, Slovakia

FIRST Slovakia 2024

Our teams' first event building with REV parts.

Mecha Falcons: 1st, Hardware Challenge · LionTech: Teamwork Award

Oct 2023Singapore

FGC 2023 · Hydrogen Horizons

Team Czechia 2023.

Oct 2019Dubai, UAE

FGC 2019 · Ocean Opportunities

Team Czech Republic 2019.

Aug 2018Mexico City, Mexico

FGC 2018 · Energy Impact

Czechia's first FGC team from ISP.

FIRST Tech Challenge

Team #11041 · first season 2015–16

In FTC, teams of students design, build and program a robot to play a new game each season, working in alliances. FalconTech has competed in FTC since the CEESA tournaments of the mid-2010s.

2026–27BIOBUZZ season

FTC 2026–27

Registered as team #11041. Season under way.

2026Slovakia

FTC event, Slovakia

The 2025–26 season continued with an FTC event in Slovakia.

Nov 2025Hasselt, Belgium

FTC Benelux Qualifier · DECODE

Our first official FTC Benelux event.

Sustain Award

2024–25Italy

Italy Championship · INTO THE DEEP

We competed in the Italian FTC championship.

2019–22

Skystone · Ultimate Goal · Freight Frenzy

Team #11041 was registered for three straight seasons, including the pandemic years.

Feb 2017ISP, Prague

CEESA FTC 2017 · Velocity Vortex

13 schools from 11 countries. FalconTech and Mecha Falcons both competed on home turf.

27–30 Apr 2016St. Louis, USA

FTC World Championship · Res-Q

We battled a last-minute rule change and borrowed a tape-measure pull-up from a friendly team. Best match: 312 points.

Feb 2016ISP, Prague

CEESA / FTC Tournament · Res-Q

We finished 5th in qualifying and were picked by WattsUp (Netherlands) for the semifinals.

Inspire Award → Worlds

Feb 2015ISP, Prague

CEESA FTC 2015 · Cascade Effect

ISP hosted the regional FTC tournament for the first time. Our team was called "Giancomo Rising".

VEX V5 · CEESA

Every February

Every year we travel to the Central and Eastern European Schools Association (CEESA) high school robotics tournament to compete against international schools from Vienna, Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Skopje, Tirana and more.

2026Tiranë, Albania

CEESA VEX · Push Back

Hosted by Tirana International School. 24 teams from 8 international schools.

2025Budapest, Hungary

CEESA VEX · High Stakes

The annual CEESA high school robotics tournament.

2024Bucharest, Romania

CEESA Robotics 2024

For many of our members this was their first competition.

One ISP team: 2nd place

Feature

St. Louis 2016: steps to victory

In February 2016 ISP hosted its second CEESA/FIRST Tech Challenge tournament, with teams from Venice, Warsaw, Bucharest, Sofia, Tirana, Istanbul, Moscow, The Hague and Vienna. Robots had to push debris into zones, trigger zip lines and climb ramps: 30 seconds of autonomous, then two and a half minutes of driver control.

Day 1

At first the robot could only drive forwards and backwards. Richard and Daniel programmed the autonomous, Alex tuned driver control, and the builders added the finishing touches.

Day 2

With Richard as drive coach, Alex as primary driver and Roman as secondary driver, the team scored mostly by climbing the ramp and finished 5th in qualifying. WattsUp from the Netherlands picked us as their partner for the semifinals.

Finals

We didn't make the final, but FalconTech won the Inspire Award, the top award in FTC. It was one of only two of the seven awards that qualified a team for Worlds, so ISP became the only school representing the Czech Republic in St. Louis, and it was our first invitation.