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FRC REBUILT Blog: Volume 12

by | Nov 3, 2025 | FRC, Newsletter

Third Play Registration is open!

    Right now, we are only allowing 3rd plays at both week 3 events: 

    • SunDome March 19-21 
    • Sammamish March 20-22 

    To help fill our SunDome event, FIRST Washington is offering free 3rd plays at SunDome.   

    Once SunDome and Sammamish have enough teams at their events, we may open up 3rd play options at other events (Oregon State Fair, Glacier Peak & Wilsonville) but we will not open 3rd play options at these events until Sammamish and SunDome have enough teams to be viable events. 

    You may end up on a waitlist when registering for a 3rd play event but I will be checking registrations regularly throughout the week and will move your team into SunDome or Sammamish if you end up on a waitlist for one of those events. 

    Boeing Grant is open! 

    The grant is open October 20 through November 14th or until all funds are exhausted.  If you have a Boeing Mentor, I encourage you all to apply early for 2 reasons: 

    • To ensure you are allocated funding before it runs out (this happened to many of our FRC teams a few years ago) 
    • With the grant opening so late, to ensure your funding has been allocated prior to event registration closing.  When we do invoices, we have to apply grant funding based on how FIRST has applied those funds.  If your Boeing funds don’t show as applied on FIRST’s end when we invoice, they will not show on your FIRST Washington invoice.  You will have to wait until FIRST opens their regrant window and will have to request a regrant to access those funds. 

    Your Boeing Mentor should have access to the grant through an internal system. 

    Next FRC Coaches Chat is Tuesday, November 18 at 7:00 pm 

    Last month, we focused on how to become a 501c3, On this coaches chat we have invited our President, Fred Krug and Development Director, Lila Mowatt to join us and talk about fundraising. 

    We will also go over the invoicing schedule, what will be on the invoices and how they will be sent.   

    Make sure to have 1 adult attend! 

    Click here for the meeting link 

    Important Dates