About RoboCon

RoboCon is a robot competition offered to secondary schools, run by Hills Road students. We provide everything you need, including the kit and 1:1 support for your students.

For Students

Learn all about what it means to compete in RoboCon, and how you can get involved!

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For Teachers

Read our teacher FAQs, and find out what you need to enter (spoiler: it's almost nothing!)

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For Sponsors

Learn about how your company can get involved in the RoboCon action! Our competition would be impossible without the generous support from our sponsors, and we are always looking for more to join us.

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What's RoboCon?

RoboCon is a robot competition offered to secondary schools, run by Hills Road students. We provide everything you need, including the kit and 1:1 support for your students.

Teachers don't need any past experience to help their students compete, read more on our RoboCon for teachers page!

Students develop a wide variety of STEM skills while building robots. Teamwork, problem-solving and programming skills are all examples of what your students could gain by becoming a competitor.

All you need is space and a teacher!

Who are we?

RoboCon is run by a friendly team of Hills Road students, with the backing of our excellent staff and alumni mentors. We not only manage the running of this competition, but also build our own robots to compete in Student Robotics (think a bigger version of RoboCon!).

Many of our students have competed in RoboCon in previous years, then joined Hills Road and become a RoboCon volunteer. We run every part of this competition, and can't wait to meet your team and help you build your dream robot!

The Competition

The competition is usually held during the Easter holidays, where teams will compete against each other in rounds for seeding before going head-to-head in knockout rounds up to the final. A rough itinerary we usually follow is shown below:


  • Day 1 Morning - Tinker Time (fixing up and finishing robots)
  • Day 1 Afternoon - 1st half of rounds
  • Day 2 Morning - 2nd half of rounds
  • Day 2 Afternoon - Knockout rounds, photo shoot and prize giving

The competition is a fun action-packed event, complete with live commentary from our red-shirts, live leaderboards and our sponsors' stalls ready to chat with students!