TRC Online // Mission Catalog
Faith-integrated robotics, coding, and engineering courses for K–12 — built by the team that's mentored Middle Tennessee makers since 2011. Cohort-based, mentor-guided, and designed to form character as much as skill.
Pre-flight checklist
No app to download, no local commute required. Pick a course, register, and your student gets the keys to their mission.
Browse courses by grade level below and find the right fit for your engineer — from first blocks to advanced builds.
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Mentor-supported
Every TRC learner follows a constellation — a progression of missions that grows with them from kindergarten through senior year.
The course catalog
Whether your engineer is snapping together their first simple machine or commanding an autonomous lunar rover, every path is clear and guided — one mission at a time.
Every machine ever built starts with six simple machines. Students use Sphero's Blueprint Build system — real trusses, axles, and bearings, not toy bricks — to construct inclined planes, levers, pulleys, gears, and structures, then test them, calculate their mechanical advantage, and redesign them to hit engineering targets. Every lesson follows the real engineering cycle: build it, measure it, improve it. It's the clearest path from "I've never built anything" to "I think like an engineer" — and the foundation for Blueprint Engineering 2.
Every smart machine — from a thermostat to a self-driving car — runs on a control system that senses, decides, and acts. In Blueprint Engineering 2, students add Sphero's electrical Bits — power, motors, sensors, inputs, and outputs — to the machines they built in Course 1 and bring them to life. They wire inputs and outputs, connect sensors and motors, and design the conditional logic and feedback loops at the heart of all automation — no programming syntax required, just real control-systems thinking. A serious step toward TRC's Pathfinder robotics work.
Modern engineering starts on a screen. Students design real parts in professional CAD software (Onshape), then watch their digital models become physical objects through 3D printing. Using a "digital twin" approach, they learn dimensioning, constraints, parametric design, and the workflow professional engineers use to take an idea from sketch to working prototype. It's the foundational skill behind every advanced TRC course that follows.
It starts with a box of parts and a single blinking light. Over 8 live missions, students build their own ASTRO MiniBOT3D rover from the ground up — then teach it to obey. They'll wire buttons and buzzers, spin motors with real code, master differential steering, give ASTRO ultrasonic "eyes," and finish by sending it on its first autonomous patrol: driving, sensing, and recovering on its own. Every mission is hands-on MicroPython — the same engineering NASA uses — with live coaching and a character Vector in each session. No experience needed.
Your rover can drive — now teach it to think. ASTRO 2 turns the MiniBOT3D into a true autonomous explorer. Across 8 advanced missions, students add infrared sensors to follow a line, classify samples by color, command ASTRO wirelessly over Bluetooth, and build a robotic arm that picks up samples without crushing them. It all builds to the capstone every mission points to: a complete, Artemis-inspired lunar sample-return mission, where ASTRO navigates out, collects a sample, and brings it home — entirely on its own.
Humanity is going back to the Moon — and then to Mars. In the most ambitious space program of our generation, students go behind the scenes to learn how Artemis works: the missions, the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, lunar landing systems, and the engineering decisions that make it all possible. Mission-based projects let them design lunar surface concepts, plan EVA sequences, build and test rockets and crew capsules with household materials, and propose solutions to real space-mission challenges.
The next giant leap. Artemis III returns humans to the Moon — the first crewed landing since Apollo, touching down near the lunar south pole. Building on Artemis Adventures II, students take the program to the surface: designing habitats and rovers, planning the first moonwalks, and engineering how a crew lives, works, and explores where no one has been before. Full curriculum launching soon.
Tell us your child's age and interests and we'll point you to the perfect starting point — so you feel confident, not overwhelmed.
Enroll in any TRC Online course and your student gets free, self-paced access to our Science Library — powered by Mark Rober's Class CrunchLabs. Built with the National Science Teaching Association and aligned to state science standards, these are hands-on, video-driven units where kids don't just watch science — they do it. Grades 3–8, and 100% free with any paid TRC enrollment.
Included free · new units added on a rolling basis
How do trains float and fly down the track without ever touching it? Explore magnetic and electric forces, build electromagnets, and engineer your own magnetic levitation system.
What would it take to survive a jump from the edge of space? Explore how mass, diameter, and distance shape gravitational force — and engineer a way to survive a crash-landing in outer space.
Step right up! Explore weight, stability, and contact forces through carnival-style games, then design, build, and pitch a carnival game of your own.
What hits harder — a small rock at high speed or a big rig rolling slowly? Investigate kinetic energy, how mass and speed change a moving object, and design a system to protect cargo from a crash.
Why TRC online
Our TRC Vectors thread — eight scripture-anchored values — runs through every course, so students grow in integrity and perseverance, not just skills.
Students learn alongside peers with a TRC mentor guiding the way — feedback, encouragement, and accountability, not a lonely playlist.
Each step ends in something built, coded, or designed. Learning sticks because students do the work of an engineer.
Flexible pacing, clear parent visibility, and a structure that fits the way your family already learns at home.
In engineering, a vector has two parts — direction and magnitude. It's our picture of raising young engineers: God provides the direction — purpose, ethics, and calling — and your student brings the magnitude — effort, skill, and perseverance. Talent without direction is just energy with no aim. Woven free into every course, TRC Vectors points growing ability toward something that matters.
Tolerances teach attention to detail and honest documentation — report what really happened, even when no one's checking.
The design cycle mirrors how we grow — through testing, failure, and refinement.
Complex systems require collaboration — no one succeeds alone, and good engineers give credit freely.
Optimizing a design reflects responsible use of the resources God provides.
Finishing well matters — in projects and in life.
Great engineers never stop asking questions — creation is full of designs worth investigating.
Made in the image of a Creator, we're called to build with skill and care.
If it isn't documented, it isn't finished — prove your work and make it plain.
Short, age-adapted sessions woven through every course — no grades, no pressure, just direction for the magnitude they're already building.
The Seven Stack Method
NASA doesn't bolt a rocket together all at once — engineers stack it stage by stage on the launch pad until it's ready to fly. We build learning the same way. Every module stacks seven activities — Watch, Read, Build, Share, Discuss, Assess, Reflect — and is crowned by the TRCharacter Vector, the character and faith theme that the whole mission carries.
Mission briefing — the video lecture that launches the module.
Key terms, the core concept, and the real NASA / engineering connection.
The hands-on build, code, or design challenge — submitted by photo or video.
Post your result so the crew can see it, then give a classmate feedback.
Respond to the module prompt and reply to each other as a cohort.
A knowledge check on the module's objectives.
Engineering-notebook reflection — what worked, what didn't, what's next.
↑ Ignition at the base (Watch) → orbit at the top (Reflect), with character as the payload.
Audete Magna
Our motto is the same phrase NASA encoded into the parachute of the Perseverance rover as it descended to Mars. We believe every child is capable of something mighty — and our job is to hand them the tools and the courage to reach for it.
01000100 01000001 01010010 01000101 — DARE
Mission briefing
No. These courses are fully online, so any family can enroll from anywhere. If you're local, you're also welcome at our in-person camps and programs.
You'll register and pay through our secure registration page. Once you're enrolled, your student receives an invitation to our online learning platform, where the course lives.
We build for every grade band, K–12, organized into four levels: Discoverers (K–2), Explorers (3–5), Voyagers (6–8), and Pathfinders (9–12).
Students move through the course together on a shared schedule, with a TRC mentor guiding the group — so there's structure, feedback, and community, not just self-paced videos.
It's how we build every module. Just as NASA stacks a rocket stage by stage on the launch pad, each module stacks seven learning activities — Watch, Read, Build, Share, Discuss, Assess, and Reflect — topped by a TRCharacter Vector that ties the work to a character and faith theme. Your student doesn't just watch a video; they build, share, discuss, and reflect every single time.
Our character thread, the TRC Vectors, is integrated throughout — it's part of who we are. It's woven into the engineering naturally, anchored in scripture, and designed to build character alongside skill.
Enroll and your engineer unlocks every mission, every build guide, and live coaching with Coach Mike — backed by our satisfaction guarantee. If it's not the right fit, just reach out. No pressure, no risk — just real engineering that finally clicks.
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