Welcome to the Canterbury High School FTC Robotics Site!

What is this competition about? 

Teams design and build a robot to compete both with and against other teams.  Students on the team also create an engineering notebook, implement outreach events, volunteer opportunities, work on the team's business model, and have a social media presence.  

Link to our official FTC team summary

Link to 2024-25 Engineering Notebook     2023-24 Engineering Notebook

2022-23 Engineering Notebook          

When do we meet? 

Throughout the year, we are meeting on Wednesdays and Thursdays after school (3:20-5:30 pm). We stay later and add more dates/times as students are available and as the season progresses. New in 2025 - We have partnered with Bionanomics and have space at Building 21 @ Electric Works downtown.

FIRST FTC INDIANA and Other Event Info 2025-26 Season:

• 9/6/25 Saturday -9:00am-3pm - FTC Kickoff Event @ GEARS, South Bend, IN 

This is where we learn about the new game!  Not required but fun and sometimes has giveaways. (we won a $25 gift card - used for compliant wheels for new intake!)

• 10/4/25 - Purdue FIRST Forums - Purdue Ft. Wayne, Ft. Wayne, IN

This is where we can take short classes about how to build, program, present, write our engineering notebook, etc.  Not required but super fun!  I am not able to go though, so you would have to get yourself there.

• 10/16, 10/17/25 - Robotics Open House - REFINERY (BioNanomics), Electric Works

• Scrimmages - REFINERY (BioNanomics), Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, IN

• 3 Qualifying Tournaments - 

This is our main competition season and each tournament will have its own set of awards and winners.  We will go through interviews with our engineering notebook as well as having our robot compete on the field. This year we have already qualified for the State Tournament because of our ranking points in the first tournament.

• 12/6/25 - Tournament 1 - Winning Alliance, Sustain Award

• 2/1/26 - Tournament 2 - Battle Ground Middle School, W. Lafayette

• 2/14/26 - Tournament 3 - Career Academy, South Bend

• 3/14/26 - State Tournament - U. Indianapolis, Indianapolis

• Worlds? Invitationals? - We will see!

Outreach and Volunteering:

• 8/18/25 Monday 6-8pm - New student Club Fair - 128 students

• 8/28/25 Thursday AM Chapel time - Club and Activities Fair

• Canterbury Covington Campus - CAVS CLUB DAY - Show younger students the robots on your day off! Service hours.

• 10/31/25 - Halloween Trick-or-Treating at school - Best Costume Contest! Help dress up our robot, visit classrooms and students, and celebrate Fall

• APEX Engineering Day - Purdue W. Lafayette, IN - The event has speakers and challenges and focuses on Biomedical Engineering/ Environmental Sustainability.

• 11/13/25 - Young Scientist Night - 5-8pm @ Canterbury Elementary School  Robotics volunteers will assist K-4 students at robotics stations - games, a build, some research, etc.  Volunteer hours!

• 12/13/25 - Volunteer @ FLL Tournament Purdue Ft. Wayne, You don't have to be there for the whole thing, whenever you are there you can help out though.  This counts for service hours. FLL is the middle school version of our robotics program.  You will need to provide your own transportation.  

• Field Trip to Medical Informatics Engineering

• 1/12/26 - After School Program Demo - Bridge of Grace Ministries, Ft. Wayne, IN - We will demo the robot and share our knowledge with K-3 students at an after school program for the local public school.

• Friday afternoons all Fall and 1/9/26 - Elementary Student FLL Team

• 1/16/26 - Chapel for the elementary school students

• 2/10/26 - Science Fair Judging @ Canterbury Elementary School

• 2/19/26 - Tools and Treats - 5:30-7:30 @ Canterbury Elementary School  Robotics volunteers will assist K-4 in a maker space where they have fun building things.  We will have our own table of activities - paper circuits. Volunteer hours count!

• Robotics Demo @ Science Central We will demo the robot for Science Central visitors.  It is Bee Weekend so if you have any bee-related gear, fee free to bring that, otherwise robotics and/or Canterbury gear please.  Counts for Volunteer Hours!

• Spring After School STEM classes - Led by robotics student Parneet, we will help K-8 students encounter various STEM ideas and create projects each week.

• Fundraiser for Chipotle from  We will stand at the doors after school and hand out coupons for people to use at Chipotle.  We will also promote this on Social Media and hand out coupons to everyone at school that day.  If you can, please consider eating order at the local Chipotle between 4 and 8pm.  Online and delivery orders won't count.

• We will visit the elementary and middle schools with the robot when the competition season is finished.

• If there are other ways we can promote robotics and demonstrate our robot in the community, let me know!  These outreach opportunities help our score as well as help promote robotics.

General Information from the national FIRST website

General Information from Indiana State FIRST website, including the schedule for the year as soon as it is announced

This Year's Game rules, animation, other info (2025-26)

A real life example of an FTC match

FIRST Scholarships are listed here.  There is a lot of $ available for seniors so take a look to see if you qualify.