Saint Lucian innovators take on the world at FIRST Global Challenge 2026

A team of Saint Lucian innovators will represent the island in Incheon, South Korea, at this year’s FIRST Global Challenge. The FIRST Global Challenge is an Olympics-style international robotics competition held annually, bringing together some of the world’s most innovative minds from over 190 countries from October 7 to 10, 2026.Under this year’s theme, “Igniting Innovation”, the team of students built a robot with ball-shooting capabilities designed to propel an object into a goal. For the third consecutive year, the Saint Lucia-based technology company Orbtronics has served as