Botathon Through the Years

Every spring, UNT students get one day to design, build and battle a robot from scratch. Each Botathon comes with its own theme, dreamed up by our officers. Here’s every season so far — 6 events and counting.

  • 7
    Season 7 · 2025 IR-laser combat

    Keep on Trucking

    Our biggest season yet — robots dueled with infrared lasers in last-bot-standing combat.

    Botathon Season 7 — Keep on Trucking Botathon Season 7 — Keep on Trucking Botathon Season 7 — Keep on Trucking
  • 6
    Season 6 · 2024 1v1 block battles

    Capture the Flag

    Robots faced off one-on-one, each side racing to capture the other team’s blocks — blue grabbing red, red grabbing blue.

  • 5
    Season 5 · 2023

    Mario Kart

    Karts, power-ups and a dash to the finish line — Botathon went full Mushroom Kingdom.

  • 4
    Season 4 · 2022

    Football

    A gridiron-inspired season of head-to-head robot action.

  • 3
    Season 3 · 2021

    Pirates

    Botathon returned from the pandemic with a swashbuckling theme, and we got back to building together.

    Botathon Season 3 — Pirates Botathon Season 3 — Pirates
  • 2
    Season 2 · 2020 COVID-19

    Cancelled

    Like most of 2020, Botathon had to take a rain check.

  • 1
    Season 1 · 2019 the original

    Balloons

    The very first Botathon — the one-day build-and-battle that started the whole tradition.

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