Robotics access
We've given robotics kits to more than 15 Illawarra families. Those kits stay with the families. The VEX IQ classroom stays a charity asset, and we share equipment with schools and community groups where the paperwork is in place.
We put working robots in Illawarra rooms young people can walk into, and we send kits home with families.
The Just Us League Limited is a registered charity based in Wollongong. We run robotics and AI programs for young people across the Illawarra, and we work on language models that help communities hold onto their own stories.
Who we are
An Illawarra charity. Robots on the floor. Kits on kitchen tables.
The Just Us League Limited (ABN 50 603 437 467) is a registered charity. After that first mention, we go by Just Us League, or the League.
We exist for families who can't buy a robot, for students who need a sensor on a chassis rather than a slide in a lecture, and for a region that shouldn't have to leave the Illawarra to touch this work.
We do two quite different things. Robotics access: kits that go home with families, a classroom kit that stays a charity asset, and equipment shared with schools and community groups. And, through our Australian AI Society program, language models for Aboriginal languages and stories, built with permission.
Kits with more than 15 Illawarra families
We've given robotics kits to more than 15 Illawarra families. Those kits go home for good.
A classroom that stays put
The VEX IQ classroom (robots, a field, and sensors) is a charity asset on permanent loan. It stays with the League.
Equipment we can share
Schools and community groups can borrow robotics equipment where named adults and insurance are in place.
Our programs
These are part of the League, not organisations we work alongside.
Australian AI Society
Our own program for the AI half of the work. It is not a partner. You can read more at aisoc.au.
The quieter part of what we do lives here: language models for Aboriginal languages and stories, on terms communities set.
Language models, with permission
Through our Australian AI Society program, Just Us League works on language models for Aboriginal languages and stories, shared with permission by the communities they belong to.
The aim is simple: knowledge held in a form communities can actually reach and use, on terms they set. Communities decide what goes in, what stays out, and what comes back out again. Restricted knowledge stays restricted. Nothing is published without agreement.
Cultural knowledge belongs to the communities it comes from. We're custodians of a technical process, not owners of the material. This work moves slowly, and it should.
If you'd like to talk about it, write to [email protected].
News from the League
Letters and notes from the year, newest first.
A robotics and AI meet every month for Illawarra families
The Just Us League Limited is a registered charity in Wollongong. Since January 2025 we've held a robotics and AI meet every month for families in the Illawarra. We do it at Berkeley Community Hall. There's no charge. A parent or carer stays and works with their kids. It isn't a drop-off, and you don't need to know robots before you walk in. Kids are welcome.
Language models for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages and stories
The Just Us League Limited is a registered charity in Wollongong. Through our Australian AI Society program we work on language models for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages and stories. The knowledge belongs to the communities it comes from. We look after a technical process. We don't own the material.
We've been sourcing training data from stories First Nations people have agreed, or may agree, to share. Nothing goes in without permission. Permission can be withdrawn. Some knowledge is restricted, by family, by initiation, by gender, by Country. That material stays out. It doesn't belong in a public model.
A VEX IQ classroom kit on permanent loan
The Just Us League Limited is a registered charity in Wollongong. We have placed a VEX IQ classroom on permanent loan: robots, a field, and sensors. The classroom is a charity asset. It stays with the League so it can be shared with schools and community groups where named adults and insurance are in place.
UOW Mechatronics has ongoing use of a ZED 2i stereo camera
In December 2025, The Just Us League Limited granted the University of Wollongong Mechatronics Faculty Society ongoing use of a Stereolabs ZED 2i stereo camera. The camera is for student and club projects, and the society's competition work, including the Australian Rover Challenge.
Partners
A partner is an organisation with its own governance that we've agreed something with. Our own programs are listed above.
University of Wollongong Mechatronics Faculty Society
Has ongoing use of a Stereolabs ZED 2i stereo camera, a depth camera students use on builds. The camera stays ours.
Expert and Decision Support Systems Institute
Works with us on system design and educational frameworks.
Visit expert.org.auIf you'd like the detail
Write to [email protected].
The Just Us League Limited · ABN 50 603 437 467 · Wollongong, Illawarra