feat: restore Texpand world champs to FTC; update Mars Yard to mention Parklands College lab and CTSC

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: campey

_posts/2025-09-12-ftc.md

@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ The **First Tech Challenge** is where CoderLevelUp focuses. Teams of high school
 
 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.
 
+## Texpand: 2024 World Champions
+
+**Texpand** (Team 26786) won the FTC World Championship in Houston in 2024. A Cape Town team at the top of the world.
+
+Their 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.
+
+Romania, a country with 220 FTC teams, is considered world-class. South Africa is at an equivalent inflection point.
+
 ## The Human Stories
 
 The numbers matter - 60+ active SA FTC teams, 3,000 students per year - but the individual stories matter more:

about/index.md

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+## Why Coder:LevelUp?
+Coding is a super-power. 
+Coder:LevelUp is helping fellow Africans learn to use this super-power. 
+This will increase the earnings potential, ability to innovate and ultimate success of individuals and society.
+
+# How we do it?
+Find and run scalable programs for the growth and development of coders (and potential coders) throughout their lifetime from before “Hello, world!” to retired guru, from age seven to a hundred and seventy.
+
+We try out (or develop) patterns for creative learning environments in small groups then see if and how these scale in the South African context. 
+
+# What we do?
+
 CoderLevelUp has been growing the coding community in Africa since 2012. What started as coding clubs for young people has grown into a broad ecosystem - from beginner learners picking up their first Pico kit, to competitive robotics teams heading to world championships, to planetary science researchers inspiring the next generation of explorers, to professional developers sharpening their craft.
 
 > "the loop of joy: having an idea, struggling and then… it works!
@@ -38,7 +50,7 @@ We help grow coders and our coding community to be part of the change that sees
 
 **[SAPIENT](/tag/sapient-rocks/):** The South African Planetary Institute for Exploring Nature with Technology. Co-founded with Dr. Matthew Huber (Planetary Science Institute / UKZN), SAPIENT uses planetary science to inspire learners and communities. Website: [sapient.rocks](https://sapient.rocks)
 
-**[Mars Yard](/tag/mars-yard/):** A simulated Martian landscape in Cape Town where learners run code on real rovers. The Cape Town Science Centre's Space Room exhibit is live, with four Mars Yards planned by 2026. UCT students (sponsored by impact.com) are building a cloud platform so any school can run rover code remotely.
+**[Mars Yard](/tag/mars-yard/):** A simulated Martian landscape in Cape Town where learners run code on real rovers. The original Mars Yard Lab is generously hosted by Parklands College; the Cape Town Science Centre's Space Room exhibit is also live. UCT students (sponsored by impact.com) are building a cloud platform so any school can run rover code remotely.
 
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@@ -83,6 +95,7 @@ LevelUp NPC, 2018/401659/08, incorporated in July 2018.
 Section 18A PBO: 930067991
 
 Directors: Roger Norton, Camilla Swart & :David Campey.
+Previous Directors: Georgia Goedhals, Natalie Milne.
 
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