5/22/25 | World Championship Recap

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Our Teams’ Performance

18139 Rebel Robotics and 20077 The Indubitables performed incredibly well at the FIRST Championship last month in Houston, TX, shocking teams from across the globe, and putting FTC Nebraska on the map. Despite our small and developing region, our teams claimed 2/12 slots in the interdivisional finals out of 9000+ teams worldwide, and each claimed their own awards due to their excellence in judging. Here is a list of awards and stats from the competition:

• JEMISON Motivate Award Winner (20077)
• JEMISON Winning Alliance 1st Pick (20077)
• JEMISON #6 Match High Score (20077)
• FRANKLIN Inspire Award Winner (18139)
• FRANKLIN Winning Alliance 2nd Pick (18139)
• OVERALL Inspire Award Winner (18139)
• FIRST Global Challenge Invitation (18139)

Rebel Robotics Team United States of America 🇺🇸

Rebel Robotics had the great honor of winning the Inspire award at the World Championship. This award, the most prestigious in the program, is given to the team who shows excellence in robot design, programming, community involvement, and performance on the playing field. As a result of this win, Rebel Robotics was invited to represent The United States of America in an Olympics-style competition where each country sends only one team, FIRST Global Challenge. Until the competition in Panama City, Panama this October, the team will be hard at work creating a new robot for the FGC game shown here. They will also forever have a banner hanging in the FTC hall of fame in honor of their achievements.

This exciting opportunity also caught the attention of many media outlets and news channels, as well as our congressman Mike Flood, who celebrated this team on the floor of congress. We hope this coverage helps in our efforts to grow our Nebraska program and inspires other students to follow in Rebel’s footsteps.