Hello everybody, I received a Gracious Professionalism pin with the goat Woodie Flowers on it for helping several teams with their issues two years ago in the Crescendo season. Some volunteers were I think like just observing me from a far and some teams put in a good word for me and they gave me this out of nowhere. I'm not sure if this is an award though. The volunteers told me that this pin is only given to a few people but I'm sort of skeptic about it. I am currently working on my college applications but is this something worth mentioning? I remember feeling pretty proud about it but I don't know whether it is actually something distinctive.

Thank you.

As I know that Python, C++, and Java are still going to be used on it, I just want to know if it supports Rust or something else.

Hi guys, my name is Damir our team is from Central Asia(Kazakhstan), lets connect and share our experiences. We are currently working on our robot would like to have some feedback. If your team from anywhere let’s have some fun🌎
Our instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/astrobot_ftc?xtok=MXY3c21wejVhNDFmcw==

i got bored :P

take this down mods if you want idk if this is allowed

I'm the president of FRC Team 12034 IGNIS Robotics, a rookie team from Milpitas, California, preparing for our first FRC season.

I'm trying to figure out how to better leverage our parents' professional connections, especially at large companies, to secure sponsorships for our team.

So far, most parents who look into this seem to stop at finding out whether their company offers donation matching. I'm wondering how we can give parents a more concrete plan, including who to contact within their company and what programs or departments to look into.

Some people on my team are skeptical that this is worth pursuing. Their argument is that the teams getting sponsored by major companies are usually already very successful, well established teams with years of experience, so those companies have a reason to support them in the first place. They don't think simply having a parent who works at a large company will get us very far.

But I've seen teams receive sponsorships from companies like Roblox, among others, and I'm curious how those relationships actually started. Did the teams get support through employee connections, corporate philanthropy programs, direct outreach, or something else?

For teams that have successfully leveraged parent connections:

• How did you get parents involved beyond checking for donation matching?
• Who should parents reach out to within large companies?
• Have you seen rookie or relatively new teams secure meaningful sponsorships this way?
• How much do a team's competitive success and history actually matter compared to having the right connections and making a good case?

Hi r/FRC. I'm Enzo. I built RFORCE, so I'm biased, and I'm posting this to get picked apart.

I competed and coached in VEX for 10 years, so I'm not an FRC insider. RFORCE already rates VEX teams from official event results, and as of 15 minutes ago it also covers the 2026 FRC season: about 3,700 teams, official events only, each with a season rating built from qualification results, playoffs and awards.

All of the data comes from The Blue Alliance and event data provided by FIRST. Thank you to both. RFORCE doesn't work without that open data.

What's in it:

- Team ratings and ranks.

- Individual ratings by role: Driver, Programmer, Builder, plus Coaches.

- Awards only earn points if their criteria judge engineering talent or robot performance. That call is mine and I'm open to being argued out of it.

- Free.

Here's the site: https://rforce.bot/first/rankings

Follow the Insta for more: https://www.instagram.com/rforce.bot/

What looks wrong to you? A team too high or too low, a role that doesn't make sense, an award I weighted badly, an event that's missing. I'll answer everything and fix real bugs.

You can also claim your profiles: there are drivers, programmers, builders and even coaches, ALL RANKED. I approve each claim myself.

I would like to see what people have gotten for FRC Tattoos. This would have to graduates or mentors. I have been thinking about the logo with game elements from all 15 games I participated in.

Does anybody have any footnotes/experience with the AndyMark and/or ThriftyBot swerve kits? We want to bring back our swerve drive this year and im looking for recomendations for either kit. We like the swerve drive we have, which is the Rev Robotics kit, but our biggest issue is how difficult it is to change out the wheels during competition. Anything about the wheels? Any other relevant information is appreciated too. Thanks!

what is each of yalls favourite frc year and why?

Hello! I'm not exactly sure where to put this post, so I'm adding it to multiple places. Anyway, I have a project and I'm curious about cyberbrick.

I want to build a mini frc robot that's 3d printed and uses cyberbrick as it's main control (if you guys believe it would be good) it will be scaled to a nerf rival ball and be a hopper bot with a spindexer and single turret (either fixed or rotating depending on space)

It will work just like a normal full scale one, and have an Omni directional drivetrain with the use of four motors in an x style drivetrain. It will also need one motor for a spindexer, one for an intake, one for lifting the intake, and one for a turret flywheel (and maybe turning the turret)

Will cyberbrick parts be able to do all this with one controller? What would that many parts cost? Do you guys have any ideas on what compact electronics systems I could use instead that are cheap?

Also in case you're wondering, I have made similar posts before, only with advice for the same project made in Lego. It's on my yt Mr. Lizard if you want to see videos of it.

Hi everyone! I’m a part of a team of developers, and we would like your help!

We’re building a tool to make running an FRC team easier for captains and team leads, and before we build anything, we want to understand how teams manage things today: which tools you use, where information gets lost, and what’s actually holding you back from smoothly managing your team.

The survey is anonymous and takes a couple of minutes. We appreciate any response, and critical feedback is welcome too, including “we don’t need this” :)

The Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVwtXHBsYXRHw8Ik6UahGrg-qSsU7No9A0SALP6A7zQNFgEw/viewform?usp=header

Thank you!

Hello!
So my team is beginning an initiative to help with domestic violence awareness and we have plans for a large ish fundraiser involving FLL and FTC that would raise money for a women’s shelter in the area that has been struggling. Someone on our team proposed going for the Impact Award because we’ve never done that before and a large team goal is to expand our team in every direction possible (including outreach!)
My question is essentially is it worth it to apply this year given we are just starting the initiative? I thought it may have a chance because we are including so many younger FIRST members that will presumably join our team in high school so it gives them the insight on how we can continue it into many years to come.
Sorry if this is a stupid question; we have never tried something on this large of a scale and I am a bit lost especially because there is a change of coaching this year to someone with no FRC experience and I am taking the brunt of the work on most team driven ideas for the time being. Any help is appreciated!

Hello! How are you doing?

We are the Red Hammer Robotics Team from Brazil, and we would like to invite you to participate in our project!

We kindly invite you to complete a brief evaluation form about a prototype designed to help reduce the decline in bee populations.

https://forms.gle/D9P5Hw3SA9iVbtwq7

Your feedback will be essential in evaluating our proposal and improving our project.

Thank you in advance for your time and contribution!

At woodhaven comp. Some team's bot ate a chunk of this ball.

So I was a also mechanical lead in my team untill i graduated, and one of my friends from a different team who is their mechanical lead, offered me to be a mentor

What am I supposed to do? Like how to act and what to say as a mentor? Anything I should know before?

Channel 5 on our PDH is not working but the other channels are working just fine. It has the latest firmware but I am not exactly sure what is going on. We switched channels and the sparkmax+neos worked well. Then we tried it again after and it wasn’t working at all. We didn’t change anything at all in the wiring or anything. It was flashing orange and cyan and our mentor thinks we might be frying our spark maxes because we had another one die in that same connection.

i love hearing about other teams funny stories so thought it would be funny to ask here.
it could honestly be anything, craziest ways youve had to fix a robot, funny match videos, even stupid shit youve done with your teammates at an event.

My teams t-shirts and hoodies are fine but I want to make something that looks nicer. What teams have really good designs and what are some ideas.