About Beaverworx

Beaverworx is a FIRST robotics program based at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic High School in Guelph, Ontario, operating as part of the Wellington Catholic District School Board and Royal City Community Robotics. Its story began in 2008 with FRC Team 2609, and today the program brings together three competition teams, FRC Team 2609 and rookie FTC Teams 38290 KitBotz and 38291 Moose on the Loose, along with an after-school robotics course for academic credit.

Each team competes on its own, with its own robot and identity, but all of them share the same mentors, facilities, resources, and purpose. Students work alongside teachers, volunteers, and industry mentors to design, build, and program competition robots under tight timelines and real engineering constraints, and in the process build the technical, leadership, and teamwork skills that carry well beyond robotics.

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Team 2609 Beaverworx at a FIRST Robotics Competition eventTeam 2609 Beaverworx with an award at a district eventTeam 2609 Beaverworx group photo at a FIRST Robotics Competition eventTeam 2609 Beaverworx members at a competition venueTeam 2609 Beaverworx with their robot in the pitsA Team 2609 Beaverworx student celebrating at a competitionTeam 2609 Beaverworx with an early robotA Team 2609 Beaverworx student reviewing a CAD model during build seasonTeam 2609 Beaverworx students building a robot bumper together

Three teams, one program

Every Beaverworx team competes as its own team, with its own robot, results, and identity. Each has its own page with more about the team and its robots.

Also part of Beaverworx: the Robotics Course. An after-school course where Grade 9 to 12 students earn their compulsory technology credit through FTC and FRC learning. It's an educational pathway connected to the teams, not a competition team of its own.Explore the Robotics Course

What is FIRST?

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is an international youth robotics organization. Through hands-on programs, students build real engineering, programming, design, teamwork, leadership, and problem-solving skills, the same ones used in industry.

FIRST, firstinspires.org
FIRST LEGO League
Ages 4–14

FIRST LEGO League

Introduces younger students to STEM through hands-on LEGO-based robotics, problem solving, teamwork, and project work.

FIRST Tech Challenge
Ages 12–18

FIRST Tech Challenge

Students design, build, and program robots to compete in an annual challenge, gaining practical engineering and programming experience.

Beaverworx runs two rookie FIRST Tech Challenge teams, established in 2026: FTC 38290 KitBotz and FTC 38291 Moose on the Loose.

FIRST Robotics Competition
Grades 9–12

FIRST Robotics Competition

High-school teams design, manufacture, program, and operate larger competition robots while working under real engineering constraints.

Beaverworx runs FRC Team 2609, the program's original team, competing in FIRST Robotics Competition since 2008.

Gracious Professionalism

FIRST is about more than building robots. Gracious Professionalism is a core part of the FIRST community, encouraging high-quality work while emphasizing respect, kindness, cooperation, and helping others.

Teams compete hard, but they also support one another, sharing knowledge, lending parts and tools, helping repair a broken robot between matches, and celebrating each other's successes as much as their own.

We compete hard. We help each other. We succeed together.

  • Compete with respect
  • Share knowledge
  • Help others succeed
A Team 2609 Beaverworx student shaking hands with a member of another team at a FIRST Robotics Competition event

Our history

Beaverworx's history began in 2008 with FRC Team 2609. Nearly two decades of FRC seasons built the mentor community and know-how the program runs on today, and in 2026 that foundation made room for two new FTC teams.

Program milestones

  1. 2008

    Beaverworx begins with FRC Team 2609

    Team 2609 plays its first FIRST Robotics Competition season, and the Beaverworx program starts with it.

  2. 2026

    Two FTC teams join the program

    FTC Teams 38290 KitBotz and 38291 Moose on the Loose are established, making Beaverworx a three-team program.

  3. 2026–27

    Rookie FTC season and an expanded course

    KitBotz and Moose on the Loose start their first competition season, and the Robotics Course gives students both FTC and FRC learning in the same school year.

FRC Team 2609's record

The results below belong to FRC Team 2609. KitBotz and Moose on the Loose begin their own records in their rookie 2026–2027 season. For Team 2609's milestone wins and award history, see the FRC 2609 page.

  • 17FRC seasons competedTeam 2609, 2008 – present
  • 26FRC awards wonDistrict, Provincial & Worlds
  • 7Trips to the FIRST Championship2008, 2009, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2023, 2024

Source: Team 2609 on The Blue Alliance

FRC Team 2609 · 2023 FIRST World Champions

Champions on Einstein Field

In the 2023 CHARGED UP season, Team 2609 and its robot, The Road Runner, were part of the alliance that won the Hopper Division and then the FIRST Championship on Einstein Field in Houston, Texas: the best result in Team 2609's history.

  • HopperDivision winner
  • EinsteinChampionship winner
  • HoustonTexas, 2023
CHARGED UP, presented by Haas, the 2023 FIRST Robotics Competition game
Meet The Road Runner
The Road Runner, Team 2609's 2023 robot, on the field with its arm raisedTeam 2609 Beaverworx celebrating with The Road Runner and the FIRST Championship banner in Houston, Texas

How Beaverworx works

  • Hands-onFrom CAD to competition, students carry the robot through design, fabrication, and testing.
  • TeamworkStudents, teachers, volunteers, and industry mentors work side by side all season, coaching and building together.
  • Open to all skillsEngineering, software, fabrication, media, outreach, and project management all have a place.

What we're building toward

These objectives are shared across Beaverworx, by FRC Team 2609, both FTC teams, and the Robotics Course alike. Win or lose, they are what the program measures itself against.

  • Competitive excellenceField well-engineered, reliable robots on every team, compete with integrity, and treat each event, from FTC qualifiers to FRC districts and championships, as a chance to improve.
  • Technical developmentGive students real experience with the engineering process used in industry, from CAD and fabrication to electronics and software, whatever their starting point.
  • Student leadershipPut students in charge of real responsibilities: leading subteams, managing timelines and budgets, and teaching the newer members who come after them.
  • Community outreachShare robotics and STEM with Guelph and the wider FIRST community through demonstrations, events, and support for other teams and young students.
  • SustainabilityBuild a program that endures: lasting partnerships, mentors who stay involved, and knowledge passed from one season, and one team, to the next.

See every robot, season by season, in the FRC Robots and FTC Robots galleries.