Events
Competitions, Hackathons and Incubators.
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The Plan
Three facts:
1. Transformative change in the form of robotics is coming whether we prepare for it or not.
2. The kids who understand how to build, program, and design them will shape what happens in the next century on this planet.
3. Right now, Finland is producing way too few of them.
What We're Actually Doing
We treat robotics education like the public good it should be. Every school should offer it like math or sports. Not as an elite program for the few, but as a normal part of growing up.
So we set up the clubs. We train the teachers. We run the competitions: local, national, and international. And we connect students directly to engineers, founders, and researchers in the field, because nothing accelerates a young builder faster than seeing where the path leads.
The economics are simple. Every company complains about a shortage of technical talent. We're building the supply, starting at age 12, in towns those companies have never thought to look.
The kid in Rovaniemi gets the same shot as the kid in Helsinki. The kid from Heinävesi competes against the kid in Tokyo. No exceptions, no excuses.
Dozens of clubs first, then a whole generation that grew up never knowing robotics was supposed to be rare.
A country that takes this seriously becomes the world's first Robotics Nation. We intend for that country to be Finland 🦾
For Schools
Your school. A working robotics club. One semester. No catch.
Most schools wait years for a program like this — committees, budgets, someone to finally say yes. We skip all of it. We bring the curriculum, the kits, the mentors, and a path straight to national competition. You bring a room and one teacher who gives a damn. By fall, your students are building.
We provide
- — VEX V5 Competition Super kits
- — Onboarding sessions
- — Access to national robotics competitions of a scale never before seen in Finland
- — A network of teachers, mentors and high agency students
- — A platform for asking questions and peer support
You provide
- — One teacher willing to learn alongside students and take responsibility
- — Students with a spark for building and problem-solving
- — Some space for the students to build
Cost of robots
0 €
Cost of mentoring
0 €
Cost of competitions
0 €
Network
Eight active. Twenty-two by end of 2026. Hover a marker for the school.
Aalto Robotics Club
The student robotics club at Aalto University.
At the center of it all: a thriving community of robotics enthusiasts gathered at the #1 technical university in Finland. This is where curiosity turns into capability, and where the people who will build Finland's robotic future find each other.
Jaw-dropping community projects built for no reason other than the joy of building. Cohesive teams competing in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and drones on the international stage, going head to head with the best universities in the world. Peer-to-peer workshops where students teach students the hands-on skills no lecture ever covers. Paper-reading nights spent arguing about where this rapidly accelerating field is headed next. Excursions that put members face to face with the industry experts already living in that future.
It's not a club you join to watch. It's one you join to build.
Team
The people making it happen.
erkka
trained a neural net to find most penis shaped lake in finland
lukas
makes and codes quadcopters for fun
viktor
banned from most otaniemi telegram groups for sharing too much robotics propaganda
matti
legendary teacher organizing national scale tournaments on his free time
