Infinite Recharge Coach Email Volume 21: 3-17-21 – We need photos of your Dean’s List nominees and your team!
Greetings Coaches!
If you are new to this email this is the place where you will find all of the Washington specific FIRST Robotics Competition information. Coaches in the FIRST system for the INFINITE RECHARGE season will be added once teams are able to register for events. Every email from me will be numbered and that number lets you know which update it is, if you miss an update you can find it on our website.
Here is what I have for you today:
- We want photos of your Dean’s List nominees and your team!
- We are in need of judges for all 3 programs in March, April & May
- Next Coaches Chat: Tuesday, March 30 7:00 pm
- Award ceremony for first round of Dean’s List and Chairman’s judging 7:00 pm April 7
We need photos of your Dean’s List nominees and your team (get creative!)
Especially because our challenges are all remote this year and not able to be face to face at all, we would love to have pictures of all of our Dean’s List nominees as well as team phots to show at our various awards ceremonies. We recognize that teams are likely not meeting in person so most won’t have a traditional “team photo” Get creative! Take a screen shot of a zoom team meeting, submit a photo of the robot you are using for the skills challenge, create an avatar that shows off the personality of your team! Please have all of your photos uploaded by March 31 so we have a bit of time to start working with them. Also, a heads up, we are trying to find a way to recognize all of our fabulous seniors! We aren’t ready to accept photos for them yet but will be asking for them next month. Start to collect photos now so you are fully prepared when I ask for them!
To submit Dean’s List or team photos, click here.
We need judges in March, April & May
Because of COVID, we have moved to a remote event format for all programs AND moved the season for our FTC & FLL programs so they are competing in March, April & May this year. Because of the overlap, we could use help from all of you to pass along our volunteer needs to your parents & mentors.
Currently we need judges for all of our events. The judging commitment is just a Saturday only commitment, you are not expected to commit to the entire event week. Here are the dates of our FLL Qualifiers in March:
Saturday, March 27 (FLL) – Still need some judges this Saturday
Saturday, April 3 (FLL) – We have 2 events this week so really need judges!
Saturday, April 24 (FLL) – Still need lots of judges
Saturday, May 1 (FTC) – Have 3 events this week so really need judges!
Saturday, May 8 (FTC) – Still need judges
One great way to become a better coach is to sit in the judge room and see what goes on behind the scenes. Even if it is for a different program, you learn so much and it is a lot of fun too!
Apply to volunteer today!
- Login to the Dashboard (http://my.firstinspires.org/Dashboard/)
- Click the Volunteer Registration tab & click ‘Volunteer at an Event’
- For FLL & FTC: Filter events by program (FLL Challenge, Discover, FTC) and
- filter by State and choose WA
- For FRC: Filter events by program (FIRST Robotics Competition) and
- For traditional FRC awards (Dean’s List & Chairman’s), search for “Pacific Northwest District Awards Event”.
- For At-Home Challenges type the name of the challenge you are interested in (e.g., Game Design Challenge).
- Note that all events show NH as that is where FIRSTHQ is located, all judging is remote.
- Select the judge role
- Complete your required youth protection background screening(applicable every 4 years) and the Privacy and Data Handling training
Next FRC Coaches Chat: Tuesday, Mar 30 at 7:00 pm
Our next coaches chat is scheduled for Tuesday, March 30 at 7:00 pm. We will have 2 topics of discussion during this chat:
- Off season events, how many teams would be interested in attending an off season event IF we held some this fall (would need to be approved by FIRST)
- How do you spend extra grant funds? We will be leveraging our veteran coaches to give us some insight and give less experienced coaches some suggestions as to how to spend any additional funds that have to be used before the end of the season (like state funds or school funds)
If we have extra time, we will happily open it up for additional topics.
Here is the zoom link for the meeting:
Topic: FRC Coaches Chat
Time: Mar 30, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Awards Ceremony for first round of Dean’s List and Chairman’s judging, Tuesday, April 7 at 7:00 pm
We will be having an awards ceremony at 7:00 pm on Tuesday April 7 to announce our Dean’s List Semi Finalists and first round of Chairman’s award winners. All teams are invited to attend and celebrate these students and teams!
Topic: FRC Dean’s List and Chairman’s First Round Awards Ceremony
Time: Apr 7, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Take care and have a great week!
Adrienne Rime
Director of Programs
FIRST Washington