Team websites
Sponsors look you up before they reply. A dead Wix page from three seasons ago is worse than no page, and a team site is exactly the kind of thing that stops being maintained the moment the student who built it graduates.
Free for every team · run by a 501(c)(3)
A team page assembled from blocks, on your own domain.
Sites teams are running
A few live team sites, picked at random.
Edit it without knowing HTML
Pages are built from blocks — text, images, galleries, sponsor walls, forms — arranged in an editor. A new webmaster can pick it up in an afternoon.
Your own domain
Point team1234.org at your site and it serves from there, with its own sitemap and its own search presence. No Robolyst branding in the URL.
The things a team site actually needs
Not a generic page builder — the blocks are the ones a robotics team keeps rebuilding by hand.
- A sponsor wall with tiers, driven by the same sponsor list the rest of the portal uses
- Contact and interest forms that land in the portal rather than an inbox nobody checks
- Your competition results, pulled live from the archive
- Visitor analytics, without embedding a third-party tracker on a site students visit
It stays up
Hosting, certificates and updates are handled. The site does not go down because a card expired over the summer.
Questions teams ask
- Is the website free?
- Yes, including hosting. A custom domain is the one thing you buy yourself, from any registrar.
- Can we use our existing domain?
- Yes — point it at the site and verify it from the portal. Until it is verified the site stays reachable at its Robolyst address.
- Do visitors get tracked?
- Page views are counted for your own analytics. There is no third-party advertising tracker on team sites.
The rest of the toolkit
Team websites is one part of the portal.
The roster, the build schedule, the notebook, the money and your public site run on the same free account. Setting it up takes an afternoon.