Student robotics · Sammamish, Washington
We’re the Seattle Solvers.
We build robots — and builders.
We’re a team of middle and high schoolers from around Sammamish, Washington, competing in FIRST Tech Challenge — a worldwide program where students design, build, and program a robot from scratch every year. Between competitions, we teach LEGO robotics classes to kids in our community and publish our engineering work for other teams to use.
New to FIRST?
The two-minute version
FIRST is a global nonprofit that runs robotics competitions for kids — think of it as a sports league where the sport is engineering. We compete in FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), its program for middle and high schoolers: every fall a new game is announced, and teams have months to design, build, and program a robot to play it.
Where that’s taken us
In the 2025–26 season our robot ranked first in qualifications at the Washington State Championship, and we earned a spot at the FIRST World Championship in Houston — where we placed 2nd for the Inspire Award, the competition’s highest honor, judging engineering, documentation, and community work together.
LEGO robotics classes
We teach kids to build
Our team runs hands-on LEGO robotics classes for students entering grades 3–7, taught by team members using a curriculum we designed ourselves. Over 70 kids have come through so far — building robots, learning to code, and finishing ready to join a FIRST LEGO League team.
Taught by students who’ve been there. We started in FIRST LEGO League ourselves — the curriculum is built from what worked when we were the ones learning.
Signups fund the team. Class fees are one of the main ways we pay for parts and competition fees — every signup directly supports a student robotics team.
The record
Three seasons in
- 2nd
- Inspire Award at the FIRST World Championship
- 70+
- Kids taught in our robotics classes
- 13
- Awards in three seasons
- Top 3%
- Of FTC teams worldwide by scoring, 2025–26
FTC's highest honor — Lovelace Division, Houston, 2025–26 season
Self-designed curriculum, taught by team members
Official FIRST award record, 2023–2026
Ranked 200 of 8,324 active teams (FTCScout)
Made possible by
Self-funded, no membership fees, powered by sponsors.
Joining our team costs nothing — sponsors and class fees cover parts, competition fees, and the programs we run for free. If your company wants to back student engineering, we’d love to talk.