FIRST Tech Challenge · William Lyon Mackenzie CI · North York, Toronto
Built from
scratch
Two FTC teams at one school. Our students design, machine, code, and drive every competition robot. We're looking for partners ready to back the program early.
CyberLyons FTC Team · Est. 2024
MechLyons FTC Team · Est. 2025
2
Competitive FTC teams, one school
200+
Students reached through outreach
3
Partner schools across North York
6+
Competitions in our second season
$10k
Season budget, fully itemized below
Two seasons in, we've already grown to two teams.
WLMAC Robotics is the student-run FIRST Tech Challenge program at William Lyon Mackenzie CI. We field two competitive teams, build every robot from scratch, and run STEM outreach across the region. A year in FTC takes students through the full engineering cycle, from design reviews and fabrication to code sprints and competition strategy. By the end, they have real hardware to show for it.
Students planned and ran every part of the work on this page, from the robots and outreach to the budget. The school gives us a home, and sponsors make the season possible.
FIRST Tech Challenge is an international robotics league where student teams design and build 18-inch robots for a new game each year. They compete in alliances, but the season is built in the shop.
CyberLyons
CyberLyons is our founding team. It set the standard for the program: build it yourself, test until something breaks, and arrive ready to compete.
MechLyons
MechLyons is our second team and the clearest sign that the program is growing. The same shop and standards now give twice as many students a chance to build, drive, and compete each season.
Outreach
Across ten events and three partner schools, we've reached 200+ students through the Mackenzie Science and Engineering Olympics, Library Open House, Grade 9 Night, and community workshops across North York. Each event gives more local students a way into STEM.
Competition
FTC gives students engineering they can hold, run, and break. In our second season, both teams took months of build work to 6+ competitions, testing their code, strategy, and driving against the region's best.
What sponsors actually get.
We treat sponsorship as a partnership with a clear return. Depending on the tier, your brand appears with our teams at competitions, throughout our 1,400-student school, and at community events across North York.
Your logo on a competing robot
At the flagship tier, your logo sits on a robot that spends the season on the field and in the pits, where it is photographed, filmed, and inspected up close.
Worn by the team
Your logo appears on team apparel at every qualifier, demo, and workshop, where hundreds of students, parents, and engineers see it up close.
Campus & social reach
Your brand reaches our 1,400-student school, three partner schools, and everyone following our builds on Instagram.
Sponsorship tiers
Tier I
Cub
$200 – $499
- Name on team website and sponsor wall
- Recognition in the season recap post
- Logo on team apparel and jerseys
- Your name in season videos and social posts
Tier II
Challenger
$500 – $1,499
Everything in Cub, plus:
- Logo on pit display and printed materials
- A dedicated social media post
- End-of-season impact report
Flagship
Tier III
Lyon Champion
$1,500+
Everything in Challenger, plus:
- Prominent logo on a competing robot
- Sponsor showcase invite
- Live robot demo at your site
These robots have never carried a corporate logo, so the founding-partner spots are still open. Each tier includes everything in the tiers before it, and every partner has a direct line to the team. In-kind contributions count too: donated parts, tools, machine time, and services offset the budget below at equal value.
Where the money goes.
A season for CyberLyons and MechLyons costs about $10,000 CAD. The full budget is listed here. Donated tools, parts, and services lower the cash we need; funding beyond the total lets us attend more qualifiers.
Projection note: These are projected costs for the 2026–2027 season, based on our spending in past seasons and statistics from other competing FTC teams.
Our current sponsors.
Our second season: two teams across ten events.
These photos and videos show our own students and robots at competitions, school events, and outreach workshops.
Both teams took the field and put a season's worth of shop work under real match pressure.
MechLyons #32514 lined up for DECODE, the 2025-2026 FTC season game.
At the course fair, 1,400 students could see what our school's engineering courses can build.
We introduced 100+ incoming students and their families to robotics with a prototype they could drive.
At the Library Open House, 50+ students built, drove, and programmed robotics projects. Families joined us from Dublin Heights, Willowdale, and C.H. Best.
Our Mackenzie Science and Engineering Olympics (MSEO) brought together 300+ students from 30+ Toronto middle schools. They tried FTC-style engineering for the first time.
Forty students ages 14 to 18 built and programmed an Arduino circuit, using a potentiometer to control an LED while learning what each component does.
Twenty-five students ages 6 to 14 built three-key Arduino pianos with buttons and buzzers, then used their circuits to create songs.
Thirty students ages 5 to 8 were introduced to robotics through a live demonstration of a potentiometer-controlled LED circuit.
Twenty-five students ages 6 to 14 built three-tone Arduino music circuits and learned how the new components worked.
Thirty campers ages 6 to 14 built three-key Arduino pianos and learned what each part of the circuit did.
Thirty campers ages 6 to 14 assembled circuits with a positional servo motor, two control buttons, and a 7-segment display showing the servo's position.
Fifteen students ages 5 to 10 watched a live demonstration of a potentiometer-controlled LED circuit and learned how the Arduino, LED, and potentiometer work together.
Help us build a program that lasts.
Choose a sponsorship tier, supply parts, mentor a student, or back the full season. Tell us what you can contribute, and we'll match it with the right recognition.
Prefer email?
hello@wlmacrobotics.caWhat happens next
- Within a few days, we'll reply with a season overview.
- You choose a tier or an in-kind contribution of parts, tools, or time.
- Before the first qualifier, we put your tier's recognition in place. That can range from apparel and sponsor-wall listings to flagship robot placement.
How payment works
Pay by cheque or e-transfer, whichever works for you. We put every agreement in writing before payment is due. In-kind parts, tools, and services count at equal value.
Find us
William Lyon Mackenzie CINorth York, Ontario, Canada
Instagram · @wlmac.cyberlyons
wlmacrobotics.ca
Send a message
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