We’re Helios, FTC Team 5214, based at The Quarry Lane School ↗ in Dublin, California. We design and program competition robots, then take what we’ve learned into our community.
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Robotics competitions are only part of the story. These programs help students learn engineering, teamwork, and leadership by doing real projects.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a nonprofit that introduces young people to STEM through team-based robotics programs. Students learn to solve problems, work together, and support their communities.
Learn about FIRSTFIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) is a robotics competition for students in grades 7–12. Each season, teams design, build, and program a robot for a new game, then compete in matches with and against other teams. Outreach is part of the experience, too.
Explore FIRST Tech Challengeseasons of learning, competing, and building together.
SINCE 2010We’re students who spend our time making mechanisms work, fixing code, planning matches, and learning from what didn’t go right the first time.
Our team has been competing in FTC since 2010. Every season brings a new game and a new set of things to figure out together.
Our storySee where we are now and what we learned along the way.
On October 16, 2026, we brought our FTC robot and STEM activities to children at Lakeside Apartments in Concord. See what we did and why access to hands-on learning matters to us.
Explore outreach