After you have received your FTC competition kit, you may be wondering what to do next. It’s time to brush up your robot-programming and -building skills so you’re competition ready. Luckily, there are many training resources available to help you with the FTC building system.

Here are a few we find helpful:

At ni.com/first, you can find useful LabVIEW™ training videos, tutorials, and discussion forums.

TETRIXmastery.com offers cool videos and comprehensive programming tutorials.

Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy delivers some excellent ROBOTC^® and LabVIEW™ materials.

At PTC.com/go/firstgettingstarted, you can learn how to access industry leading software which PTC donates to all FIRST teams. This software will aid in both your Robot Design and Team Collaboration. Also avaliable at this site is the entire FTC kit of parts modeled in Pro/ENGINEER.

Don't for get to get the most out of your TETRIX resources. Combining LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT with TETRIX can help convert any high school classroom into a hands-on robotics laboratory. Visit the MINDSTORMS Controlled/In the Classroom section of TETRIXrobotics.com and see how easy it is to bring TETRIX into the classroom.