Friday 14th February 2025, as well as being Valentine’s Day, it was also the last day before Half-term, so it was very nice to be hosting our first bake sale of the term then! It was fantastic to see all of our planning pay off, the sale was very successful!

Similar to previous bake sales, we collaborated with our school’s younger FTC teams for the baking effort so there was plenty of delicious Valentine’s themed cakes, cookies and more! Everything looked fabulous decorated with hearts, pink and red icing and sprinkles! Team Cipher’s very own Shaked (our Project Manager) brought homemade meringues – which are becoming a robotics bake sale staple – shaped like hearts, which were simply scrumptious!

We served at break and lunchtime, setting up with the help of staff and extra preparation time by leaving classes a couple minutes early. We had so much to put out that some items were almost sold out by the time we’d even finished setting up. By the end of break we’d sold over half of what we had, which was so amazing! Our earnings were kindly kept safe by staff in the in-between period so that when we came back at lunch we hadn’t accidentally lost anything. Over lunch we sold the rest of the baked goods, having only a handful of items left – all of which sold incredibly, just made in very large batches causing leftovers.

Seeing everyone work together to help raise money for our teams was massively inspiring. Overall the sale was a huge success – we had some insightful conversations with teachers about robotics, sold almost everything and made far more than we anticipated! This sale has meant we’re over 2/3 of the way to our fundraising goal for the whole Spring term, and pushed us over halfway to our £1000 goal for the entire season!