FIRST
How FTC actually works, and the FIRST organisation behind it — the season timeline, costs, Core Values, scholarships, and every official resource.
What you will be able to do
Start a team from nothing, run a full season without missing a deadline, submit a real Engineering Portfolio, and walk into judging prepared.
Start here if you are brand new. This track answers the questions every rookie team asks us in person: what does it cost, what do we actually need to buy, when is everything due, and what happens at a competition?
Nothing here assumes you have a robot, a mentor, or a budget yet.
The second unit steps back to FIRST itself: where it came from, the Gracious Professionalism it judges you on, what it opens up after high school, and a directory of every official and community resource worth bookmarking.
Start here
Course contents
What FIRST Tech Challenge is· FIRST's own two-minute introduction to the programme, the field, and what a team does.Watch on YouTube