1 What we make
Unless a page says otherwise, the text, diagrams, lesson content, exam questions and photos on this site and in the Blue Tongues Academy were made by the Western Blue Tongues and are © 2026 The Western Blue Tongues (FRC Team 10316). The team logo is the team’s own.
Other FRC teams and schools are welcome to ask to use our Academy material for non-commercial education. Please ask first and acknowledge the Western Blue Tongues. Contact the Team Admin (use Contact us or the Send feedback box in the portal).
2 Your work
Students keep ownership of their own work, including designs, code, writing and photos. When you upload something to the portal you let the team show it in the portal. If a Team Admin approves it for the public site, you also let the team show it there. You can ask us to remove it.
3 Other people’s work we use
| Material | Owner and how we use it |
|---|---|
| Future Ready Skills progressions | © Department of Education Western Australia. The Academy summarises the five skills (Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Creativity and Community) in its own words and links to the originals at frs.srczone.net, which are free for educational use with acknowledgement. |
| FIRST® and FIRST® Robotics Competition | Trademarks of FIRST. The Western Blue Tongues is a registered FRC team. It is not FIRST, and FIRST does not endorse this site. |
| Autodesk, WAZER, Bluecarve, Beam Pro, REV, CTRE and other makers | Names and logos belong to their owners. We link to their manuals, safety pages and lessons. We do not copy them. |
| Videos | Owned by their creators and hosted on YouTube or Vimeo. We link or embed them as the host allows. |
| Robot software | WPILib and vendor libraries are open source or licensed by their publishers. Their licences apply to code you take from them. |
| Photos of other teams and events | Used with permission, or credited to the photographer. |
4 Using material from this site
Australian copyright law lets you copy a reasonable part of a work for your own research or study (fair dealing). Schools have extra rights under the educational statutory licences. For school guidance see the Department of Education copyright page. If you want to republish or sell anything from this site, ask first.
5 AI and copyright
AI tools can reproduce other people’s work. Check anything an AI gives you for copyright, and say when AI helped. Read our AI use statement.
6 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge
We do not reproduce Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural knowledge, stories or art without the permission of the people who hold it. We teach it only with local Elders and Aboriginal staff, and we do not use AI to write it.
7 If you think we got it wrong
If you think we have used your work without permission or without credit, tell the Team Admin (use Contact us or the Send feedback box in the portal). We will check straight away and fix it or take it down.