From 29 April to 2 May 2026, the ‘Guardianes de la Aguada’ robotics team represented Uruguay at the FIRST Championship – World Festival 2026 in Houston. Comprising six students from the Colegio y Liceo Sagrada Familia in Montevideo and led by teachers Thiago Toranza and Daniel Karvelis, the team reached the World Championship after winning first place in the national competition of the Ceibal 2025 Robotics Olympics, which took place in November at the Antel Arena in Montevideo.
In the United States, the team presented and competed with the “Rosetta” project, an educational app using augmented reality that brings archaeology to the public via a robot. Their participation marked a double milestone: they are the first team from a private school and the first from Montevideo to reach the World Festival.
The Guardianes de la Aguada concluded their participation in the World Championships, scoring 445 points in the robot challenge, thereby breaking their own national record set in November last year.
In their most recent FIRST LEGO League Challenge, they performed on a par with the world’s best teams and set a high standard for the school’s future representatives in the competition. This cohort concludes their journey with: two national records, a first-place finish in the robot challenge at national level, a national championship title, and a competitive appearance on the international stage.
We are very proud of their achievements, but even more so of how much they have grown as students, as individuals and as a team along the way.
