Fast Start: Overview

Checklist:

You are finished with this section when you:

• Sign up for an iFixit account using your school email address

• Join a student team

• Create a profile

• Choose a fix for your project that is not already documented on iFixit

• Email a PDF of your proposal to techwriting[at]ifixit[dot]com, making sure to include your team tag in the subject line

• Check out the Putting It Together: Building A Successful Project infographic

Join a Team

To register for an account on iFixit, go to the iFixit homepage and click on “Join” in the upper right corner. Fill out the prompts to create an account using your preferred name and school email address. Do not use “Sign up with Google” or “Sign up with Facebook” to create your account.

Then, go to the Student Teams Sign Up page to join a student team.

Even if you are working alone, you need to be on a team. Being on a team, even a team by yourself, gives you student privileges that allow you to complete your work.

• Make sure to select the appropriate information from the drop-down menus. If you add yourself to the wrong team, just select the correct team and click "Update My Team."

• Team tags follow this format: School-InstructorLastName-T#S#G#. For example, if you are attending Cal Poly in Dr. Jane Doe's class, in Fall 2023, assigned to section 4, group 7, your team tag will be: CPSU-DOE-F23S4G7.

Inspiration

Here at iFixit, repair is our way of life. It motivates us to do what we do. We live in a throwaway economy, where people simply chuck things in the trash when they break. Those things end up in huge landfills and wreak havoc on the environment. We want to provide people with the information and tools that they need to repair anything that might need fixing. (For more information on why we care, check out iFixit.com/right-to-repair.)