BadgerBots

This week, our summer camp staff came together for training, safety instruction and hands-on practice with the technologies and activities campers will be exploring all summer long.

Nothing builds team togetherness quite like a tornado warning and a little time spent sheltering in place together. 😉

Summer camp season officially begins Monday, and we can’t wait to kick off another amazing summer of hands-on STEAM learning and fun. See you soon, campers!

Mark your calendars before your summer gets busy!

Join us for a *free* FIRST LEGO League Open House and learn how your 4th–8th grader can develop teamwork, problem-solving, communication and coding skills on an FLL Challenge robotics team this fall. Not to mention build awesome robots! FLL teams are parent-led and perfect for a friend group to do together.

Bring the whole family or come solo (parents must accompany their child). Kids try out the LEGO robots with help from our high school robotics students throughout the evening, while parents enjoy a presentation beginning one hour after doors open.

Each Open House covers the same info, so come to whichever works best for your schedule. You're welcome to attend more than one.

Learn more at www.badgerbots.org/robotics.

Let's build the future together!

We're bringing some of our most popular STEM summer camps to Sun Prairie for two weeks this summer for kids who love to build, create or just try new things!

📆 July 13-16 from 1:30-4:30:
Grades 1-2 — LEGO Essential Robotics
Grades 3-8 — LEGO SPIKE Robotics or 3D Printing

📆 July 20-23 from 1:30-4:30 pm:
Grades 1-2 — Jr. LEGO League Explorer
Grades 3-8 — LEGO SPIKE Robotics or LEGO League Team Bootcamp or 3D Printing

Choose one week or join us for both! Spots are limited so don't wait. Learn more at www.badgerbots.org/camps.

Also check out our expanded camp schedules for our Madison, Middleton and Fitchburg camp locations.

Let's all forget about cooking dinner tonight and head to Culver's to support FRC Team 1306 BadgerBOTS! See you at the Mineral Point Rd Culver's by West Towne Mall between 4-8. ✌❤️🤖

Give your 🍳kitchen a break while supporting the team! 🍔Eat at Culver's on Mineral Point Road (Across from WestTowne Mall) tomorrow from 4-8pm. 10 % of proceeds will be donated to the team. No flyers needed.

Big news! 🎉

BadgerBots camps are coming to Sun Prairie this summer! Kids in grades 1–8 of all experience levels can join us at Token Springs Elementary for a great camp line-up featuring LEGO Robotics and 3D printing.

Camps run July 13-16 and July 20-23, Monday through Thursday from 1:30-4:30 pm. Free extended care is available from 1-1:30 for families bridging from SPASD Summer School.

If you have friends, colleagues or family in Sun Prairie, DeForest, Windsor or anywhere on the east side, let them know BadgerBots is heading their way!

Spots are limited so register today. Share this post and help us spread the word!

Learn more: badgerbots.org/camps

Such a great experience to have Girl Scout Troop 8284 spend the day at BadgerBots earning their Robotics badges. They were taught entirely by female members of FTC teams Attack Hamsterz and Technical Difficulties. Thanks Makayla, Zoe, Elena and Maddie for being great mentors and role models!

Older girls showing younger girls what's possible for them in STEM. This is what looks like. ✌❤️🤖

FTC team Technical Difficulties showed off their competition robot at the Madison Children's Museum's Badgerland Learning Days Celebration on May 7. The little kids had a blast catching balls the robot launched into the air.

Events like this are a great opportunity to get kids excited about STEAM at a young age. And fun activities like catching a ball from a robot are hard to forget.

We were excited to partner with the Madison Children's Museum and work to build the future together, one curious kid at a time.

We were thrilled to bring our youth robotics community to the 2026 UW-Madison Engineering EXPO on April 17–18.

Three of our teams, FRC Team 1306 BadgerBOTS, FTC team THUNDERHeads and FLL team Rocky Riders, helped kids build FLL-style LEGO robots and drive actual FRC and FTC competition robots.

Connecting with curious kids and sharing our passion for youth robotics and STEAM is what BadgerBots is all about. Thanks to UW-Madison and all the organizers for having us at the Engineering EXPO!

FRC Team 1306 BadgerBOTS is back from the FIRST Championship in Houston!

The team wrapped up an incredible season: a 46-15 season record, three medals and their first-ever FIRST Championship appearance on robot performance. Every single member of the team helped make it happen! ✌❤️🤖

Their fun doesn’t stop this summer either. They’ll be doing community outreach, competing in off-season events and some members will even be instructing at BadgerBots summer camps!