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Incredibots Academy — rookie to competition-ready

Rookie to competition-ready.

77 free, self-paced lessons — robot to funding to outreach.

Start from zeroBrowse all tracks
FTC #26336 · AcademyFree · 77 lessons
01 · Where to beginFour steps

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. Start a teamWhat FTC is, what it costs, what to buy first.FIRST
  2. Build something that movesDrivetrains, gear ratios, and mechanisms that survive.Mechanical
  3. Wire it safelyControl Hub to motors, and passing inspection.Electronics
  4. Make it driveJava, TeleOp, autonomous — running in your browser.Programming
02 · The curriculum77 lessons

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.

17 lessons

CAD

Model a complete FTC mechanism in Onshape with fully-defined sketches, proper mates, and drawings your build team can manufacture from.Open track18 lessons

Programming

Write and structure a full season's FTC codebase in Java: a responsive TeleOp, a reliable autonomous, and mechanisms that use encoders and sensors properly.Open track11 lessons

Electronics

Wire a complete competition robot from battery to sensors, pass inspection, and diagnose the failures that knock rookie teams out of matches.Open track11 lessons

Mechanical

Choose and size a drivetrain, calculate gear ratios for speed or torque, size a lift or arm with real motor data, and build mechanisms that survive a full competition day.Open track13 lessons

Business

Build a season budget, fund it through sponsors and grants, run outreach that reaches people, and present the whole thing to judges.Open track7 lessons

FIRST

Start a team from nothing, run a full season without missing a deadline, submit a real Engineering Portfolio, and walk into judging prepared.Open track
03 · Why we built thisSammamish, WA

In-person mentoring does not scale.

Five members of FTC Team 26336 in red Incredibots shirts at their competition booth

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:

  • Q.01How do we register?
  • Q.02What do we buy?
  • Q.03Why won’t the motor spin?
  • Q.04How 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 follows you between devices

Progress saves in your browser as you work — no account needed. Sign in and your place, completed lessons and exercise results follow you to any machine.