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Free · Self-paced · Built by FTC Team #26336

Everything a rookie FTC team needsIn one place. For free.

We could only mentor so many teams in person, and most of that time went into explaining the same things over and over. So we wrote it all down — robot to funding to outreach — and made it self-paced.

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6
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26336
the team behind it
Where to begin

Brand new? Follow this order.

You do not need a robot, a mentor, or a budget to start. Work through these four tracks in order and you will have a competing team.

  1. 1

    Start a team

    What FTC is, what it costs, what to buy first.

    FIRST
  2. 2

    Build something that moves

    Drivetrains, gear ratios, and mechanisms that survive.

    Mechanical
  3. 3

    Wire it safely

    Control Hub to motors, and passing inspection.

    Electronics
  4. 4

    Make it drive

    Java, TeleOp, autonomous — running in your browser.

    Programming
The curriculum

Six tracks, one team

An FTC team is not just its programmers. Every role here has a real curriculum — including the ones nobody teaches rookies.

CAD

Design robot parts in Onshape — from your first sketch to a full assembly your team can actually build.

1 lesson · 12 min

Programming

Write the Java that actually drives your robot — TeleOp, autonomous, sensors, and control loops.

18 lessons · 7 hr 30 min

Electronics

Wire a legal, reliable robot — Control Hub, motors, servos, and sensors — and fix it when it stops working.

2 lessons · 30 min

Mechanical

Understand drivetrains, gear ratios, linear slides, and intakes — then design your own mechanisms.

1 lesson · 15 min

Business

Fund your team and keep it running — budgets, sponsors, pitches, and the boring things that decide whether you exist next year.

1 lesson · 16 min

FIRST

How FTC actually works — registering, the season timeline, judging, awards, and surviving year two.

3 lessons · 40 min
Why we built this

In-person mentoring does not scale.

We are a third-year FTC team from Sammamish, Washington. Our mission is to promote a better and greener planet, teach others about robotics, and have fun doing it.

Teaching others turned out to be the hard part. We mentored rookie teams in person, and we kept answering the same questions: how do we register, what do we buy, why won't the motor spin, how do we pay for any of this?

A written, self-paced curriculum does scale. So here it is — the whole thing, free, for any team anywhere.

  • Learn by doing, not watching

    Write real Java against a simulated robot. Wire a Control Hub on an interactive canvas. Size a gear ratio with live calculators.

  • For the whole team

    Business, outreach, and team sustainability get the same depth as the robot. Those are what decide whether you exist in year two.

  • It remembers where you were

    Progress and mastery are saved in your browser as you work. No account, no sign-in, nothing to lose track of.