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fix: replace Gazebo with desktop sim on Mars Yard; generalise FTC worlds reference
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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_posts/2025-09-10-mars-yard.md

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You don't need to be at the Science Centre to try it, either. A Gazebo simulation lets learners run rover code remotely before it executes on real hardware.
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You don't need to be at the Science Centre to try it, either. A desktop simulator lets learners run rover code locally before it executes on real hardware.
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## Write Code, Get Back Video
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_posts/2025-09-12-ftc.md

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The **First Tech Challenge** is where CoderLevelUp focuses. Teams of high schoolers design, build, programme, and operate robots to compete in alliance-format matches — judged not just on performance but on outreach, engineering documentation, and gracious professionalism.
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And right now, two Western Cape teams are heading to the World Championship in Houston.
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## Texpand: 2024 World Champions
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**Texpand** (Team 26786) won the FTC World Championship in Houston in 2024. They're a Cape Town team - and they're going back.
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Their 2024 victory was more than a trophy. It unlocked R670,000 in additional funding and directly catalysed the formation of 17 new South African FTC teams. One championship win, seventeen new teams. That's the multiplier effect.
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## Autonova: Also Heading to Houston
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**Autonova** has also qualified for the 2026 FTC World Championship in Houston - a remarkable achievement. Two Western Cape teams at Worlds, in the same year.
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The FTC World Championship draws 85,000+ attendees from 58 countries. It's one of the largest youth engineering events on earth.
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South African teams qualify for the FTC World Championship each year — one of the largest youth engineering events on earth, drawing 85,000+ attendees from 58 countries.
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## The Human Stories
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