This week, we had the absolute privilege of putting the Fulton Hogan team to the test with a Robot Wars experience designed to stretch them well beyond the usual comfort zone.
Seventy participants. Nine robots. Three large-scale bridges. One shared objective.
The challenge wasn’t just to build and program a fleet of educational STEM robots — it was to engineer bridges strong and wide enough to carry those robots from table to table, under strict guidelines and real constraints. Every design decision mattered. Every adjustment had consequences. If one element failed, the whole mission stalled.
What made it powerful wasn’t the technology — it was the teamwork.
With 70 people split across robot builds and bridge construction, silos simply didn’t work. Communication had to be sharp. Planning had to be collaborative. Problem-solving had to be collective. It quickly became clear that this wasn’t multiple teams working on separate tasks — it was one team, aligned to one goal.
Watching the shift from scattered ideas to unified execution was the highlight. When the robots successfully crossed the bridges they had engineered together, the sense of pride was undeniable. Ownership. Accountability. Shared success.
A brilliant example of what happens when a large group commits to moving forward as one.