Who we are
If you are meeting Antares for the first time, these are the pieces worth knowing.
The team
FIRST Robotics Competition Team 6962. Founded in 2018, we design, build, program and drive a new competition robot every year. Students run the team: they make the engineering calls, manage the budget, find the sponsors and teach the next group.
How the team worksThe school
A nonprofit TK-12 school founded in 2014 by Sal Khan to put mastery-based, student-directed learning into practice. Approximately 315 students across two Silicon Valley campuses. Antares is the school's engineering program with real deadlines and a public scoreboard.
Visit Khan Lab SchoolThe competition
Every January, FIRST unveils a new game. Teams get eight weeks to build a 120-pound robot, then compete in alliances of 3 vs 3. Over 93,000 students competed in FRC in 2025, and more than 200 Fortune 500 companies sponsor the program.
What is FRC?Our partners
Sponsor logos travel with us. They are on the shirts in the stands, on the pit display, and on the robot itself at every event we attend.
How a match works
Each team brings one student-built robot. Every match pairs three red-alliance teams against three blue-alliance teams, and lasts approximately two-and-a-half minutes.
For the first 15 seconds the robot runs student-written code with no driver input.
Students take the controls, maneuver the field and coordinate with two alliance partners.
Robots score points on that season's tasks and race for an endgame position. The higher alliance score wins.
Student led
FRC typically serves 9th through 12th grade. Antares starts in 6th grade, so students have enough seasons to learn a discipline, lead it, and hand it on before they graduate. Mentors provide safety, technical context and coaching. Students make the decisions.
6th graders start alongside experienced teammates instead of waiting for high school.
Structured training in design, build, electrical, code, fabrication, marketing, business and outreach.
Students own a subsystem, a budget line or an outreach program, with mentors as coaches.
Leads train the students behind them, so expertise stays on the team when they graduate.
Season 2027
Pre-season is underway. Students are training, prototyping and running design reviews ahead of the January kickoff, when FIRST reveals the new game and the eight-week build clock starts.
Support the team
Sponsorship funds robot parts, registration, travel and the shop where 6th graders learn to build. Partnership tiers start at $1,000, and in-kind support and employer matching are welcome.
