Portfolio
Write an FTC portfolio with worked examples of engineering, programming, outreach, and team development.
A tells what your team built, learned, and achieved during the . Use it to support every award your team pursues, with photos, results, and explanations of your decisions.
First portfolio
Start with a improvement, something a member learned and applied, and an project with a recorded result. Gather the photos, measurements, dates, and notes before laying out pages.
Then work through this sequence:
- Awards and Inspire: decide what work your team needs to explain.
- Planning: choose the stories and assign pages.
- Engineering, programming, outreach, and team development: turn records into explanations.
- Layout and writing: make those explanations easy to read.
- Interviews and final review: check that the document and the team are ready.
You can start with a kit robot, a small local partnership, and a simple document. Describe the work your team actually did and the choices you understand.
Improving a portfolio
| If your draft has… | Start with… | Examples to study there |
|---|---|---|
| A finished robot with little explanation of how it developed | Engineering | Super 7's comparisons, Rebel Robotics' revisions, and Blu Cru's design analysis |
| A list of libraries and | Programming | Blu Cru's driver states and Seattle Solvers' localization changes |
| Event photos and large audience totals | Outreach and impact | Super 7's project pages and Rebel Robotics' partnerships |
| A roster and logos, but little explanation of team growth | Team development | Seattle Solvers' learning stages and Blu Cru's applied training |
| Crowded pages or long paragraphs | Layout and writing | Different arrangements for comparisons, sequences, and an opening overview |
| Strong individual sections but unclear Inspire coverage | Awards and Inspire | How one documented activity can answer several different award questions |
Use a book example for one writing decision at a time. Identify the question its page answers, find the picture or result that supports the explanation, then gather the equivalent records from your team. The lesson may be a comparison, a diagram, or a clear caption; your own portfolio's content comes from your work.
Inspire case studies
See how four teams explain their work through page examples, with ideas you can use in your own portfolio.
The topic guides above compare examples while you draft. The case studies below follow each team's document in more depth. Page references mean numbered content pages, excluding the cover; select a page image to inspect it full size.
Rebel Robotics
2025 overall Championship Inspire winner. A compact award overview and a detailed record of robot changes.
Blu Cru
2026 Goodall Division Inspire winner. Mentor learning, design analysis, and software recovery paths.
Super 7
2026 Edison Division Inspire winner. Team risks, repeated outreach, and side-by-side mechanism iterations.
Seattle Solvers
2026 Lovelace Division Inspire second place. Member development and performance measures tied to design decisions.
Season context
The examples come from earlier seasons. Use them for ideas about explaining your work, and use the current submission requirements for your own portfolio.
The final review collects the current page, file, privacy, and submission checks in one place.