--- title: Home growth: tree --- > **Train hard. Build smart. Compete fierce.** --- ## Start Here **New to the team?** Walk the [[entry-path|Entry Path]] โ€” three pages every member reads before touching a tool or writing a line of code. --- ## Training Paths **โญ [[entry-path|Entry Path]]** โ€” *Required for everyone.* FIRST overview, our story, youth safety. Start here before anything else. **๐Ÿ”ง [[swerve-training-hub|Swerve Training Hub]]** โ€” Deep dive into our drivetrain: motors, modules, odometry, and autonomous. Earn the Swerve Specialist badge. **๐Ÿ“ [[training-pathways|Electrical ยท Mechanical ยท Pneumatics Tracks]]** โ€” Badge-based progression across three skill tracks: | Track | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | |-------|---------|---------|---------| | **Electrical** | Component ID | Board build + signaling | Troubleshooting | | **Mechanical** | Chassis + actuators | Advanced mechanisms | โ€” | | **Pneumatics** | Component ID | System design | โ€” | --- ## Training Modules | Module | Topic | Track | |--------|-------|-------| | [[first-robotics-overview]] | What is FIRST? | Entry | | [[2890-our-story]] | Who we are | Entry | | [[youth-safety]] | Shop and electrical safety | Entry | | [[2890-codebase-index]] | Our codebase, explained | Programming | | [[fusion-360]] | CAD fundamentals | Mechanical | | [[gear-ratio-mechanism-design]] | Gear ratios and mechanisms | Mechanical | | [[megatag]] | Megatag game strategy | Season | | [[photonvision]] | AprilTag pose estimation | Programming | | [[systemcore]] | roboRIO replacement platform | Programming | | [[first-technical-resources]] | Official FIRST docs | Reference | --- ## Explore - [[entities/index|๐Ÿ‘ฅ People]] โ€” Mentors, students, alumni - [[games/index|๐Ÿ† Game Archive]] โ€” Every FRC season since 2016 - [[knowledge/2890-Claw|๐Ÿ“– Team 2890 Overview]] โ€” Who we are and what we build --- *Training is the main thing. Everything else is support.*