Business, Operations & Fundraising
Run your team — and fund it — like a real organization.
The Business & Operations branch covers everything that keeps an FRC team running as an organization rather than just a robot project: team structure and student leadership, project management across the build season, budgeting and fundraising, sustainability and recruitment, documentation, and the team business plan. It also covers how the business sub-team supports the technical sub-teams year-round and how all of this culminates in the FIRST Impact Award, the program's most prestigious honor and the only path to the FIRST Hall of Fame. This is the work that turns a one-season robot into a multi-decade institution.
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The learning path
Modules & lessons
A start-here primer on the organizational and financial basics every FRC team needs off the field. Before you fundraise, file paperwork, or run a build season, learn what a nonprofit actually is, how to build a budget that survives a six-week sprint, and how to manage a project with a real deadline. Each lesson teaches the concept from scratch, then ties it directly to how FRC teams operate.
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14 modules, 49 lessons, all free — grounded in the real Game Manual and WPILib docs. Read now, track your mastery when you sign up.