Meet the AeroCoast League

If you’re new to FIRST Tech Challenge, here’s how the program is organized in Florida,
where the AeroCoast League fits, and why the Forgotten Coast is ready for its first FTC team.

How FTC Is Structured in Florida

FIRST Tech Challenge in Florida is organized in three layers. This makes the season easier
for families, schools, mentors, and teams to understand.

About the AeroCoast League

The AeroCoast League, league code AC, covers the Florida Panhandle —
roughly Tallahassee in the east to Pensacola in the west, plus all of the Forgotten Coast in between.

The 2025–2026 AeroCoast League Roster

All 25 teams that competed this past season, sorted by team number, with sponsoring organization where publicly listed:

1. #10179 Tech Turtles — Niceville, FL — Community team
2. #14707 Zero Logic — Crestview, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly
3. #14708 Short Circuits — Crestview, FL — Crestview High School
4. #15297 Legacy — Tallahassee, FL — Tally Robotics homeschool group
5. #16626 Radical Raiders — Niceville, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly
6. #16764 ROBOhana — Inlet Beach, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly
7. #18147 The Imposters — Tallahassee, FL — Tally Robotics homeschool group
8. #18699 The Purple Axolotls — Tallahassee, FL — Lincoln High School
9. #23765 Evium 99 — Fort Walton Beach, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly
10. #23830 Neuro-Genesis Lux — Panama City Beach, FL — Genesis Community School
11. #23873 The Gentz — Crestview, FL — Shoal River Middle School
12. #24201 Mizz Fitz — Crestview, FL — Shoal River Middle School
13. #25968 TCS Giga-Bites — Panama City, FL — The Collegiate School at FSU Panama City
14. #26038 Catastrophic RAMifications — Panama City, FL — Rutherford High School
15. #26055 Maritime Manhunters — Panama City, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly
16. #26170 Tech Tacos — Navarre, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly
17. #26712 STEMM Hive — Valparaiso, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly
18. #27203 Cyber Geese — Tallahassee, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly
19. #30342 Iron Claw — Crestview, FL — Davidson Middle School
20. #30359 Techy Wild Lions — Crestview, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly
21. #30659 No Brainers — Cantonment, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly
22. #30780 TOAST — Santa Rosa Beach, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly
23. #31006 Quantum Mechanics — Monticello, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly
24. #31417 Droid Dynamics — Tallahassee, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly
25. #32119 Vector — Tallahassee, FL — Sponsor not listed publicly

Sponsor information reflects what each team has elected to publish on FTC Events / FTC Scout sites.
Many teams keep their sponsor name private. If you know one of the unlisted sponsors, let us know and we’ll fill it in.

Geographic Clusters

The roster reads like a quick map of where FTC is already growing in northwest Florida.

Where Forgotten Coast Robotics Alliance Fits

As a brand-new team based on the Forgotten Coast, we’ll join AeroCoast for the 2026–2027 season.
Our League Meets and League Tournament will all be inside this same 18-county footprint, mostly as Saturday day trips.

The AeroCoast League is large enough to be competitive and small enough to feel connected.
By the third meet, students are not just competing against strangers — they are scouting teams they recognize,
learning from familiar robots, and building relationships across northwest Florida.

That’s one of the best parts of FTC: students do not just build robots. They build confidence, teamwork,
engineering habits, communication skills, and a real community.

Why This Matters for the Forgotten Coast

Bringing FTC to the Forgotten Coast gives local students access to high-level robotics, programming,
design, engineering, documentation, public speaking, fundraising, and leadership opportunities without needing
to leave the area to join an established team.

Our goal is to help students from Apalachicola, Eastpoint, St. George Island, and nearby communities
become part of the same exciting robotics pipeline already growing across northwest Florida.