• 2026 MA States qualifier
  • Sustain Award, WNEU Qualifier
  • Winning alliance, Ryken RoboBowl
  • Think Award, WNEU Qualifier
FIRST Tech Challenge · Team 26413

A high school robotics team in Weston, Massachusetts. We build a new competition robot every year and teach younger students to do the same.

GNCE Mercury logo: the god Mercury holding a staff inside a lavender diamond

GNCE Mercury

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The robots

Three seasons, three machines

GNCE Mercury's INTO THE DEEP robot with intake and lift arm
2024–2025 · Rookie

INTO THE DEEP

Year 1. Our rookie season, with a Think Award at the WNEU Qualifier.

See how we built it
CAD render of GNCE Mercury's DECODE robot with its intake, transfer, and turret shooter
2025–2026 · 2nd Season

DECODE

Year 2. Sustain Award, first pick on the winning alliance, and a trip to MA States.

See how we built it
The Mercinator, our BIOBUZZ robot, fully built (version 1)
The Mercinator V1 on a workbench while it was being built
2026–2027 · BIOBUZZ · Current

The Mercinator

Our 2026–27 robot for the BIOBUZZ season, in progress.

Follow the build
Since 2024

The record so far

Next competition

GNCE Mercury team with our robot at the Ryken RoboBowl, advancing to the Massachusetts Championship
Ryken RoboBowl, December 2025. We were first pick on the winning alliance and qualified for States.
Team & outreach

Ten students and four coaches

We design, build, wire, and program one robot each season.

Our members have competed at international events and won awards there.

In the summer we run a robotics camp, and during the school year we coach Weston's FIRST LEGO League teams.

Build with us, or help us get to the next event

Team members laughing as they test a liquid-nitrogen-cooled superconductor with tweezers and small magnets at a lab bench
Oct 9, 2026 · Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT

Students. Rookies are full members of the team. Tell us whether you want to build, code, design in CAD, or run outreach.

Families and sponsors. Donations pay for robot parts, competition registration, and travel.