Alamance County robotics team heads to world championships
Students from 12 Alamance County schools are headed to the World Championships, turning one robotics team into a countywide STEM pipeline.
A robotics team built from students at 12 Alamance County schools is heading to the World Championships, a rare countywide showing for a program that reaches beyond any one campus. The roster links students from Burlington, Graham, Mebane, Elon and Haw River, turning one competitive team into a shared STEM pipeline across the county.
The team’s advance matters because robotics is not just about a working machine. In FIRST Robotics Competition, students have to code, engineer, design, collaborate, troubleshoot and present under pressure, the same mix of skills local educators and employers increasingly want in technical jobs. A team that pulls from 12 schools also shows those opportunities are not confined to one district corner or one selective program.
That countywide reach sits inside a larger North Carolina competition ladder. FIRST North Carolina is the statewide home for FIRST Robotics Competition, and its 2026 teams listing tracks programs in the state for the “Rebuilt” season. Other North Carolina teams have already made the jump from local shops to the world stage, including Lumberton High School, which earned one of only two rookie-team slots designated for North Carolina, as well as Fuquay-Varina High School and Enloe Magnet High School, which competed in Houston, Texas.
For Alamance County, the championship berth points to more than a trophy chase. It suggests that students from multiple schools can build a single, advanced team when mentors, school support and community backing line up. In a county where Burlington, Graham, Mebane, Elon and Haw River all feed into the same talent pool, the trip to the World Championships becomes a test case for how far a local STEM network can carry students.
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