TR Competition
This is where it all leads.
TRC students compete on real robotics teams in FIRST LEGO League, FIRST Tech Challenge, the Robot Drone League and Sphero Robotics Competition. Teams meet weekly, add extra sessions before competitions, and represent TRC at regional, state and national events.
Find your team
How to join: Competition teams are by invitation and chosen from current TRC students. The best way to be considered is to enroll in a TRClass. Talk with us about the right pathway for your student.
Sphero Robotics Competition teams
TRCompetition is adding new SRC teams for the 2026–27 season. In SRC, teams of 4–8 students design, build and code two Sphero Blueprint robots made to work together, then take them into live league competition.
- ✓ Head-to-head matches: two teams face off on the same field
- ✓ Tech Trials: your team scores as many points as it can on its own
- ✓ Two Blueprint robots per team, each built to complement the other
- ✓ Prequalifying and qualifying events through the season
- ✓ Qualifying teams advance to State and Regional Championships
- ✓ Run by Sphero with TEAM Alliance
- ✓ Grades 6–8
- ✓ Practice Saturdays, 10:00–11:30 AM
- ✓ Teams of 4–8 students
- ✓ Extra sessions before competitions
Compete with TRC
Welcome to TRCompetition
The TRC Competition teams at TRC provide our students with engaging and dynamic opportunities to apply what they learn in the classroom within a social setting, fostering lasting friendships. Selection for teams occurs through an exclusive invitation process, prioritizing students who have been involved in our TRClasses, TRCamps, and TRCompetition teams during the program period. Any additional openings will be filled afterward.
Team meetings take place on designated days throughout the week for specific training and build sessions, with the possibility of extra meetings on weekends as necessary for tournaments, team prep and practice.
Our Vision: engineer mighty things
To be Middle Tennessee's premier K-12 engineering education program — where students learn real life engineering and robotics from professional instructors, develop meaningful skills through a complete K-12 pathway, and graduate ready to compete.
Our Mission: to inspire
To inspire the next generation through comprehensive engineering education in technology, robotics, and computer science—developing confident problem-solvers who will shape tomorrow's world.
Program news and updates
FLL Competition Schedule
Tentative and Subject to change!!!
- FLL Qualifier- December (TBA)
- FLL East Tennessee State Championship- February (TBA)
FTC Competition Schedule
Tentative and Subject to change!!!
- FTC Invitational Scrimmage 1- (TBA)
- FTC Invitational Scrimmage 2- (TBA)
- FTC Regional Qualifier- (TBA)
- FTC State Championship- February-March (TBA)
RDL Competition Schedule
Tentative and Subject to change!!!
- Regional Qualifier- November 14 (CMHS)
- Robot Drone League Nationals - March 11-13 (ETSU)
Limelight 3A Demo Guide for FTC Teams and Coaches
This guide takes a TRC FTC team from a Limelight 3A in the box to a robot that finds a yellow BIOBUZZ pollen ball, turns to face it, and drives to it.
This guide builds on the four-step Limelight flow from the BIOBUZZ Kickoff presentation (Presented by Team TechNOVA 12611): Capture, Create a Pipeline, Get Data, Use It in Your Code.
Who it's for: Red 11161, White 23866, and Blue 23867 programmers and any FTC Team running the Limelight 3A camera this #BIOBUZZ season for demo & practice.
Note: This guide assumes the team can already push code from Android Studio to the Control Hub.
Thanks to our TEAM sponsors and supporters
