ITKAN
ITKAN Solar with its robot and North Texas Regional Championship banner

Built at the highest level of FTC

ITKAN LaunchPAD:
Propelling FTC Teams
to a High-Scoring Season

A world-class FTC team opening its engineering process, competition experience, and hard-earned knowledge to teams everywhere.

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What is ITKAN LaunchPAD?

Competition knowledge,
opened to everyone.

Since the FTC PowerPlay season, LaunchPAD has helped new and emerging teams build point-scoring robots faster. What began for rookies has grown into a resource for FTC teams across the globe.

LaunchPAD bridges the mentorship gap with practical knowledge that can change a team's season.

ITKAN teams competing on an FTC field

The work that came before

Proven on the field.
Shared in the open.

LaunchPAD is built on years of engineering, testing, and competing at the highest level of FTC.

ITKAN FTC students together at competition
ITKAN students working around an FTC robot
ITKAN students presenting their competition robot

Built through competition.

Refined through testing.

Shared through LaunchPAD.

NO. 22025 world ranking
NTXRegional champions
FIRSTWorld Championship

ITKAN Solar
Team 19564

LaunchPAD

Weekly engineering updates
from the ITKAN season.

LaunchPAD Episode 1

Season Kickoff

Introducing ITKAN LaunchPAD, our goals for the season, and how we plan to help FTC teams around the world improve throughout the year.

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ITKAN previous-season robot featured in Behind the Bot

Previous season

Behind the Bot

A look back at the engineering behind our previous season.Watch the feature
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LaunchPAD Episode 2

Coming Soon

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LaunchPAD Episode 3

Coming Soon

Resources

Built to help teams
move faster.

Coming soon

CAD

Competition-tested mechanisms and design files.

Coming soon

Code

Autonomous, controls, and robot software resources.

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Resources

Start with the current LaunchPAD episodes and season notes.

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ITKAN FTC team at competition

Build with us

Build better.
Compete smarter.

Follow the season. Learn from the process. Build with us.

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LaunchPAD Roadmap

One season.
A growing resource.

LaunchPAD grows with the work happening inside the ITKAN season.

01

Current

LaunchPAD

Meet the program and what teams can expect.

02

In progress

Weekly Updates

Follow ITKAN's engineering process.

03

Coming soon

Engineering Resources

CAD, code, builds, and technical resources.

04

Coming soon

Competition Season

Test, compete, and apply what we learn.

05

Coming soon

Season Recap

Share the lessons and what comes next.