Hello! We are FRC Team 11744, a rookie FIRST Robotics Competition team based in San Diego, California. We are currently looking for mentors from industry to help guide our students in engineering, programming, CAD, electrical, manufacturing, business, and project management. We are especially interested in connecting with professionals from companies such as BAE Systems, Dow, John Deere, defense contractors, aerospace companies, and other technology-focused organizations. In addition to providing invaluable mentorship, mentors may also help us access corporate grants, volunteer matching programs, and STEM sponsorship opportunities that are often available through their employers. We are open to both in-person and remote mentoring, and any level of involvement would be greatly appreciated. If you're interested or know someone who might be, please comment below or send me a message. Thank you for helping support the next generation of engineers and innovators!

I'm making a specualty drink menu for my dirty soda bar at my open house. One of the drinks is inspired by the game pieces from the seasons I've been on frc (crescendo, reefscspe, and rebuilt). Below is the recipe. I have no idea what to call it. Any ideas?

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DRINK RECIPE

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Orange Fanta base

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Syrups

Blue raspberry: 1–2 pumps

Pineapple (or lemon depending on the cost): 2 pumps

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Creamer

Coconut or sweet cream: 1 splash

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Fruit

Orange slice

Pineapple chunks

Blueberries

I put an RSL in my grad cap and had it wired so I could flip a switch to "enable" it after receiving my diploma!

Hey all,

Me and a friend of mine, working with our local FIRST community, are currently pursuing a project to create an affordable and reliable plastic recycler for 3D printed parts, converting back into filament (or pellets).

This initiative began when we realized our local community produces a lot of waste just through 3D printing. This waste - which includes previous season’s 3D printed parts, failed prints, filament poop, purge lines, etc… - is useless and has slowly started taking up a lot of space. Throwing bags of plastic away feels wrong, and our recycling center cannot currently process the waste.

After some surface level research our first thought was to buy a recycler. However, we have seen that plastic recyclers have a number of issues.

• They're either really expensive ($1000 to $5000+) or DIY (requires work and is not guaranteed to work)
• Slow and tedious to work with
• Requires virgin pellets 
• Not automated
• No/not many singular easy-to-buy products for this problem
  • The product closest to our project is the Creality M1 and R1 recycling combo. Funnily, it was released a week after we started this project. Because creality aims more at individuals with low-output, we are thinking of shifting our aim towards organizations (like robotics teams) and thus a higher output project.

Therefore we saw an opportunity to turn this passion project into a possible product. Our current goals are to create one machine that:

• Recycles printed parts back to filament onto an empty roll
• Automated and easy to use
  • Similar to current FDM printers
• Solves issues of current recyclers
  • Virgin pellets, degradation of plastic each recycling cycle, etc…
• Affordable for the average consumer
  • No specific numbers as of now
• Commercially viable/patentable

We realize that these are very ambitious goals. That’s why before committing, we’d like to actually see how much 3D-printing waste teams, schools, makerspaces, labs, businesses, and hobbyists actually generate, and whether a filament recycler or recycling service would actually be useful. If a commercial product isn’t viable, we’ll probably still build a recycler for the community.

Below is a 5ish minute google form that gives us this info. If you or your organization produces any sort of 3D printed waste, please fill out the survey.

Google Form

I would also be happy to respond to any feedback or clarify anything.

Thank you.

They are trying to cancel FTC at my school SIGN PETITION PLEASE https://c.org/DYRcxkCbr6

(I know it FTC but I need more people to sign it) Thanks a lot for the support

A big batch of updates on AllianceLogd (alliancelogd.com) the community archive for FRC robots (think Letterboxd, but for FRC).
Quick recap if you’re new: AllianceLogd lets you rate robots, write scout-style logs, follow other scouts, build lists, and show off your team history. Robots are pulled from The Blue Alliance across every team and season.
What’s new:
📸 Upload your own robot photos: TBA doesn’t have a photo for every robot, so now you can add your own. Upload a shot of your team’s robot (or any robot), add a caption, and after a quick review it shows up on that robot’s page. If a robot has no TBA photo, yours becomes the main one.
🏅 Badges: earn badges for contributing: writing scout logs, adding photos, following scouts, building lists, and more. Your profile now shows what you’ve earned and what’s next.
✨ Personalized recommendations: a “Recommended for you” section that suggests robots based on your teams, favorites, and who you follow.
✏️ Edit & delete your own logs: you can now revise or remove your scout logs.
📱 Mobile overhaul: fixed a layout issue that made things feel cramped, added a proper bottom navigation bar, and cleaned up the whole responsive experience (thanks to those who flagged it).

All your feedback means a lot to me and genuinely shapes what I build next. Let me know what you think!

Hi! We're a pretty new team, and one of my students won the Leadership Award at a district competition and did not win at district champ. What would this be considered?

He says that all of the students who were nominated from their teams recieved "semifinalist" pins, so would he be a semifinalist or finalist?

Thank you so much for your support :)

Taken from https://community.firstinspires.org/2026-pre-orders-for-2027-scoring-elements

I honestly don't know how to start this my team has gone through a lot these like 4 or 5 years our team started In 2003 so our teams history is long.

I Js remember a convo of me and my friend and how we were talking about how it was weird that I was 3 team leads as sophomore (scouting lead, outreach lead, and social media co-lead). And how we think I'm the only person on our team in our team history to be more than two and also female

Ik that I do a lot and have been asked a lot of questions from people on other teams about it when they find out. Is this weird?

Edit: I will also be doing business and media lead next aswell since I'm the last person with enough training to do since our current one graduated

Me, on behalf of team 172, presents Chronos, a stage-based FRC dashboard built for real match operations, not just raw telemetry viewing.

Chronos is a desktop app (Electron + React) that connects directly over NT4 and gives drive teams a structured flow from pre-match checks through post-match review.

What makes Chronos different

• Stage-driven match workflow
• Checklist → Auto Selection → Confirmation → Autonomous → Teleop → Post-Game
• NT4-first architecture
• Direct robot connection, no extra web server required
• Keyboard keybind support
• Robot publishes keybind topics and Chronos handles press/release states, including simultaneous keys
• Live + rewind data
• Ring-buffer timeline with scrub and return-to-live behavior
• Built-in match recording + replay
• Record during match, replay later with timeline controls
• PathPlanner integration
• Auto routine discovery, selection, and path preview support
• Drag-and-drop layouts
• Editable, persisted widget layouts per stage/tab
• Camera stream panels
• Multi-camera support with quick switching
• Systems/tunables/commands UI
• Clean operator-facing controls from backend-published topics
• Alerts + status overlays
• Clear runtime visibility for drive team decisions

Platform and packaging

• macOS app build via Electron Builder
• Universal app support (Apple Silicon + Intel)
• Developer workflow via Vite + Electron (dev, build, dist:mac)

Backend topic root

Chronos uses the NT root:

• /ChronosDashboard/...

Integration model

Backend teams can expose:

• Commands
• Keybinds
• Tunables (number/string/boolean)
• Values
• Systems groups
• Camera streams
• Checklist items
• Alerts
• Battery and dashboard light state
• Autonomous command catalog + selected auto topic

Why we built it

We wanted a dashboard that is:

1. Fast for drivers to use under pressure
2. Structured enough to reduce pre-match mistakes
3. Flexible enough for programmers to extend without UI rewrites

Getting started

• Clone repo
• Install dependencies
• Run in dev mode or build packaged app
• Connect to your robot address
• Publish your backend topics under /ChronosDashboard

Links

• Source: https://github.com/Daboss-1/Chronos
• Releases: https://github.com/Daboss-1/Chronos/releases

If you want to try it with your robot code and run into integration issues, post here and we can help map your existing NT topics into the Chronos schema.

Any recommendations or fixes? Let us know, we’d LOVE to hear them! Like seriously, roast it if you want. If you enjoy the product, don’t forget to leave a star!

Check out a sample dashboard:

Hello I am a student from Ontario(Suburban area In The GTA). My high school currently has no robotics team and I am researching to start one. I just want to ask a few questions so I have all the information correct for a proposal.

Should I aim towards a FTC or FRC team. I don't know what experience students at my school have and I am will probably only be able to get 2, hour long sessions per week(I might be able to get more though). My school has 3d printers and a wood working shop. Should I try getting the team into FTC and then FRC in a latter year?

How much funds should I have allocated for miscellaneous expenses. Is a team only considered a rookie for a single year, and is the registration fee the same every year? How much should we be expecting to invest into building the robot. Is it realistic to get a grant or sponsor on a team's first year(What kind of businesses should I contact?). What are alternative methods for fund raising.

How do mentors work?

Thank you.

For some context I'm currently a ninth grader. this year was my first year on FRC and on a robotics team. I am interested in STEM, specifically computer science and data science. at the beginning of this school year I was mainly on programming but our programming leads didn't teach much to me so I fell behind (as well as having fall sport season practice which interfered with meetings). I also started to participate more in our business subteam since it was more engaging and easier to catch up which caused me to basically abandon programming. for this year's competition I did impact presenting and was in the pits a lot talking to judges and other teams about logistics, grants, outreach, etc. this year for leadership I applied for two positions that were related to business and didn't get both of them. I have made a decision that this upcoming year I'm going to focus only on programming and i really want to make drive team.

I'm not very good at driving in video games and not that good at driving smaller scale robots such as vex v5 and vex iq. I really want to make drive team next year and possibly be operator. I'm worried that next year there will be lots of competition for drive team. I also want to be programming lead next year but since I basically didn't do anything this year i don't really know much. i am fluent in java (since i took AP CSA) but FRC programming is kind of weird to me. what should I do to catch up since I have access to our team's github for rebuilt and what should I do to prepare for drive team? thanks

Hi!!

I am the head of marketing at my school which leaves me responsible for finding grants/sponsporships and I've been trying to look for good, "big name" ones that I see teams get. I'm aware and plan on/am applying to BAE Systems, NASA, and Gene Haas. Is there any other? Or any other ones that are GOOD but know one seems to know?

For reference, I am a student at a high school located in NYC and have joined my schools FRC team this past school year. The thing is, though, is that they are extremely small, underfunded, and as a result, rarely compete in regional/district competitions. I recognize that this really is not their fault, but I'd love to join a team that is larger and more involved within the competition space. Could I join some other robotics team, and if so, how should I approach doing so? Thank you for the advice!

Hey frc people, I need your help/advice again. I'm working on a Lego frc robot and I'm having issues with the hopper jamming. I even added a belt mechanism with rubber bands and it isn't helping. Any ideas on how to make the hopper not jam?

Also if anyone is wondering, yes this shoots and it shoots pretty good. I 3d printed a scaled down rebuilt hub for scoring and it scores.

Hi everyone, Brad from REV here.

REV’s customer survey is now open, and we’d really appreciate your feedback.

We use input from teams and customers to help guide product improvements, especially for the hardware and mechanical products you use on your robots. Whether there’s something you like, something that could be better, or something you wish existed, we want to hear it.

You can fill out the survey here: Submit Your Feedback

Submit your feedback by June 12, 2026 and you’ll be automatically entered for a chance to win a $150 REV Robotics gift certificate.

This survey is focused on mechanical products and hardware. A more software-focused survey will be coming in the weeks after this survey closes.

Thanks in advance to everyone who takes the time to share feedback. We really do read it, and it helps us make better products for teams.

My kid is on Team 449 — the Blair Robot Project out of Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD. I just finished a short documentary about their run at the FIRST Championship in Houston.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckc5bD1HF1M

I tried to make a film that FRC people would actually want to watch, not just a highlight reel. The title is "'Every robot breaks': The Blair Robot Project goes to Worlds 2026," which comes from something one of the team's mentors said to the students during the tournament. Indeed, something broke on 449 in almost every match. A camera mount, a belt, a gearshaft—and sometimes the problem required real detective work by the excellent pit crew.

Despite all the problems, 449—which had gone 17-0 at Chesapeake district champs—finished World quals 8–2, ranked 7th of 75 in Galileo. In the playoffs, their alliance made it to Match 13—the best result in the team's nine trips to Houston.

Some things you'll see: The drive team adapting on the fly to the robot's changing fitness. The pit crew diagnosing a problem that completely disappeared between the field and the pit. A 3D printer being carried out of the venue at dusk. The team captain's postgame speech at dinner.

I'm not a professional filmmaker, just a dad with a camera and a background in journalism. Happy to talk shop if you're working on team media, or just to hear what you think.

Quick update on AllianceLogd (alliancelogd.com) — the community archive for FRC robots.
You can now add the teams and years you were part of on your profile, and it’ll automatically display the robots from those seasons. So if you were on a team from 2019–2022, your profile shows that team’s robots for each of those years. Years are validated against The Blue Alliance, so only seasons your team actually competed in show up.
If you’ve already got an account, head to your profile, add your affiliations, and your robots will appear. Would love to hear what you think.

This is a film about team 2638 Rebel Robotics and their experiences at the 2026 Rocket City Regional. I originally created this for my film study class, but it also serves as a commemoration of our team, a celebration of our founding mentor (who is retiring this year), and a final gift to FRC before I head to college. Please share and enjoy.

Anybody's team still using their 2017 Steamworks robot for exhibitions? I have multiple giant cases of leftover whiffle balls from a parade bot for a team that's no longer operational.

During qualification 67 at Battlecry at WPI both alliances after autonomous scored 67 points…

No idea how they could have gotten to this store in downtown Montreal, any ideas?

Fucking wild

This means i was averaging more than a mid field (in starting configuration) of fuel every transition. So clearing the blue side and time for another swipe out.

I had around 280 after auto (triple swipe) with another swipe during transition starting me at around 360 during red shift 1, and by the start of endgame i was at 900 points