@tyniebrains
Engineering Portfolio

Our Story, Structured

Guidelines and materials for the engineering portfolio.

Connecting

Community moments that shaped the season.

Scrimmage group photo

Scrimmage

On December 4, 2025, our team and several others from Scotland met inside the HMFC stadium for a tech scrimmage. This gave us the opportunity to connect with other teams and test our robot. We learned valuable lessons from the scrimmage that influenced our design decisions.

Future Friday

This season we focused on building foundations for future connections in the STEM and FTC community. We increased visibility inside our school through events like our open robot visit and Women in STEM Morning, helping us connect with students and teachers who are now more aware of our program.

Portfolio Notes

Key reminders and requirements pulled into one place.

Portfolio Requirements

  • 15 pages max, plus one cover page. Minimum 10 pt font.
  • Keep formatting consistent and readable for judges.
  • Team number should appear on the cover and within the portfolio.

Robot + Season Story

  • Mechanism pages should include purpose, design choices, iterations, and why changes were made.
  • Include math, sensors, and decision logic where relevant.
  • Use real photos and CAD screenshots of prototypes and final mechanisms.

Team & Sustainability

  • Document funding sources, sponsors, and expense awareness.
  • Show sustainability plans: recruiting, mentorship, and sponsor growth.
  • Call out new members, mentors, and sponsors gained this season.

Outreach & Connections

  • Explain who you connected with and what you learned.
  • Track outreach with the general community and how many people you interacted with.
  • Use correct definitions for Mentored, Started, Assisted per Game Manual.

Portfolio Resource Summary (TWCA)

  • Engineering portfolio is a short, concise summary of the team’s season journey.
  • Include sketches, discussions and team meetings, design evolution, processes, obstacles, goals, and member reflections.
  • Not required for many awards anymore, but still a vital tool in judging.

Source: Team Without a Cool Acronym (TWCA) Engineering Portfolio Resource (v3, Sep 2025).

2025–2026 Game Manual Transcript Notes

  • Match play: four teams, two per alliance; partners rotate across matches.
  • Robot size: 18-inch sizing cube; extensions stay within cube until end game.
  • Field: 12 ft square; red/blue goals with classifier ramp; AprilTags on goals.
  • Game objects: 24 purple artifacts + 12 green artifacts; robots can hold up to three.
  • Auto (30s): decode motif, leave start line, score artifacts.
  • TeleOp (2 min): score, open gate, collect from human player; possible ranking point.
  • End Game (last 20s): fill classifier to motif, return to base for bonus points.

Outreach

Social media, events, and impact snapshots.

Item 1 — 62.5%

Item 2 — 25%

Item 3 — 12.5%

Social Media

So far we have made 2 videos with a total of 1,098 views and 31 likes.

Events

Connect
Motivate
School Showcase
Community Visits

Awards Planning

Notes from the team about award requirements and priorities.

  • Track requirements for each award and what we’ve done toward them.
  • Prioritize Control and Innovate awards based on engineering depth.
  • Document flywheel iterations, tests, and calculations clearly.
  • Add CAD screenshots and prototype photos to support award submissions.

Portfolio PDF

Latest engineering portfolio draft for review.

Open PDF

Behind the Robot Calculations

Handwritten calculations and design reasoning.