Chapters · § 3.1

Free. Always will be.

You need three friends and one teacher. A chapter is your crew, not the school's team. No tryouts, no cut, no bench, and a school can have as many as its students want to start (§ 3.2).

A CHAPTER IS NOT A TITLE. A CHAPTER IS PERMISSION TO TRY TO EARN ONE. § 3.5

Free to start. Scarce to win.

CHAPTER Free, forever

3–6 friends and one teacher's signature. As many per school as students want to start. § 3.1

SANCTIONED TEAM Paid, per event

Your chapter enters, your school signs. Fee and details live in the advisor memo. § 3.3

TITLE & RECORD Earned. Never bought.

Nobody grants it. You win it, and the record follows you. § 3.5

THE PATHTHREE STEPS, HONESTLY LABELED

01 Get 3–6 people EASY Your friend group is a legal roster (§ 3.1). Robotics teams, clubs, homeschool co-ops, and library groups all qualify. A chapter doesn't have to live inside a school.

02 Get one teacher to sign THE HARD ONE This is the step chapters die on, so here is the exact thing to send, word for word. The memo it points to (/advisors) answers every question a teacher actually has: job, hours, cost, liability, who runs this. It prints.

Hi [teacher], a few of us want to start a MADE chapter and it needs one faculty advisor: your signature on one form, and being in the room at events. This one-page memo is the whole ask: [site]/advisors/ . Would you read it?

03 Send in the charter FREE Print the chapter charter (Form C-1), fill it in with your roster, get the signature from step 2, then photograph it and upload it below. A phone picture is fine. Chapter numbers are assigned in founding order and never reused. Money only ever enters if you later choose to enter a sanctioned event (§ 3.3), and by then you'll have a date and a reason to fundraise against.

The charter (Form C-1) The memo for your teacher

THE MAPCHAPTER STANDINGS

Registered chapters
Chapter	School / Org	City	Founded	Status
The 3rd-Period Crew	your school	your city	this fall	EXAMPLE
No chapters yet. The first twelve shape the rules. Registration opens alongside Sprint 001. Founding chapters get a standing seat in the rules process: their questions become the first public rulings, and their playtests drive the changelog.

MANY CHAPTERS PER SCHOOL. YOUR CREW, NOT THE SCHOOL'S TEAM.

Not ready to found anything?

You don't need a chapter to compete. The Open Sprint requires no team, no advisor, and no fee (§ 3.4), and your individual defense record starts there either way. Plenty of chapters will be founded by people who met at one.

Enter the Open Sprint