Design. Build. Code. Compete.
Middle Tennessee's robotics and engineering center for kids, building young engineers since 2011.
Real robots, real tools and coaches who hand kids a hard problem without handing over the answer. What started in a garage is now a full K–12 lab, with online courses for families anywhere.
Rated 5.0 by TRC families
“My son just finished a week-long summer camp here, and he said it was the best camp ever. They taught him important life skills in addition to STEM lessons.”
“Best place for kiddos to learn STEM subjects. Coach Mike is fantastic.”
“Kids learning so much and loving it.”
“The club is great. My son loves the classes.”
TRClass
Real engineering, one level at a time. Students design, build and code real robots on the same platforms used in FIRST and Robot Drone League competition.
Real robots. Real engineering.
Students work with LEGO SPIKE, Sphero Blueprint and indi, our own 3D-printed ASTRObot, CAD software and 3D printers. They plan in real engineering notebooks and follow the same design cycle working engineers use.
Progress you can see.
Lessons are sequenced so skills stack up from session to session. Every session ends with a capstone project students design, build and present, and families come in on capstone day to see what they made work.
More ways to build with us
Competition teams, open lab time, camps, homeschool classes, Saturday builds and online courses for families anywhere.
TRCompetition
FLL, FTC, Robot Drone League and Sphero teams that compete at regional, state and national events.
TRCreator Lab
Open lab time to tinker, design and keep building between classes, with mentors on hand to help.
TRCamp
Skill-building camps where campers launch missions and engineer mighty things over school breaks.
TRCommunity Homeschool
Transcript-ready engineering courses with 30+ hands-on labs, textbooks and assessments, built for homeschool families.
NewTRC212 STEAM Saturdays
Two hours of hands-on aerospace, rocketry, science and engineering. One Saturday, one complete build, taken home the same day.
TRC Online
Live, mentor-guided cohorts in robotics, CAD and space engineering, with build kits shipped to your door.
TN STEAM Festival at TRC
We're opening our labs to the community and launching TRC212 STEAM Saturdays. Everything is hands-on and free, so bring the whole family.
- Take the controls of the ASTRObot, TRC's own 3D-printed robotics platform.
- Get up close with Pathfinder, our student-built quarter-scale replica of NASA's Perseverance rover.
- Watch a part go from CAD sketch to printer bed at a live 3D printing station.
- Meet the students who build, code and drive our FTC and Robot Drone League robots.
Your student is learning. But are they building?
Rigorous, hands-on STEM is hard to pull off at home. The equipment is expensive, the projects need real space and tools, and the kit gathers dust after one weekend. TRC gives students real lab equipment, real tools and coaches who have done the work themselves.
I started TRC in my garage to teach my own sons real engineering. One is an aerospace engineer now. Fifteen years later, TRC is here for yours.
Three steps to launch
Tour or try a free class.
Visit the center, see the labs and watch students at work, or let your student take their first class free. Bring your questions.
Find their mission.
We'll learn about your child and match them to the right level and program.
Launch their mission.
Enroll and watch them go from curious to confident.
Know a kid who'd love it here? When a family you send enrolls with code FRIEND25, they get $25 off their first session and you get $50 in account credit. No cap.
A vector has direction and magnitude. God provides the direction; students bring the effort, skill and perseverance. Each month's Vector ties a character theme to the engineering in the lab.
This month's VectorSchedules, registration and updates on your phone. Sign in with your Sawyer login. You don't need a new account.
Come see why families call TRC home
Schedule and registration
Choose a date and time below to reserve your spot. Questions? Call 615-796-4632.
TRC APP is now published.
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download it in your favorite app store. NOTE use your Sawyer login as your credentials for the app. you do not create a new account.
dare mighty things
Our mission is to inspire the next generation to Dare Mighty Things through comprehensive engineering education in Technology, Robotics, and Computer Science, developing confident problem-solvers who will shape tomorrow's technology and make a positive impact on our world.
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