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FRC Blog Volume 9 – Make sure you are registered for a kickoff

by | Oct 31, 2023 | FRC

FRC Blog Volume 9 – Make sure you are registered for a kickoff

Make sure you are registered for a kickoff

Every team needs to select a kickoff to attend or your team will be marked as a my site. 

If your team is marked as a my site it means

  • You kit will not ship to you until after kickoff (so it may take a week or longer until you receive it)
  • You will be charged shipping by firstinspires

You can register for your kickoff on your firstinspires dashboard

You are not required to attend the kickoff, you can send someone to pick up your kit during the kit pick up window.

The recording from our last coaches chat is posted

 

I apologize for the confusion.  I thought all of the zoom meeting links had been removed but there was a zoom link still on our calendar so I know many of you were trying to attend the meeting but couldn’t find the correct link.

As I said in the last blog, we are switching over to teams for these meetings so be sure to check that the link you are using is a teams link.

Click the button below to navigate to the slide deck and recording on our website.

Click Here

FRC Fall Workshops : Hosted by FRC Team 2557

Please join us for our annual get together focused on everything to do with FRC robots and general game play. Some of the workshops will be repeats of previous years – valuable to rookie teams and new members of veteran teams.

RSVP HERE!

Date: November 18, 2023

Time: 9 AM – 3 PM

Location: Point Defiance Zoo Environmental Learning Center (ELC) Tacoma, WA 98407

Lunch: Generous Pizza Slice, Chips, Cookie and Drink for $5 (sign up onsite)

We plan to have some new topics this year. Possibilities are:

• Using websites like Chief Delphi

• Pit organization

• Front of House – speaking effectively to judges and others,

• Pre-season Design Challenges,

• Care and Feeding of Mentors

• Managing Luck

Or any other topic you would like to see or present. We are always looking for new topics and presenter

FLL Blog Volume 10

by | Oct 25, 2023 | FLL, FLL Challenge, FLL Explore

FLL Blog Volume 10

FLL Challenge Invoice Information!

Four rounds of FLL invoices have gone out so far!

We are sending 1-2 per week to teams that have registered with FIRST and filled out their FIRST Washington registration!

If you have not received one, check here for your teams status. If only FIRSTWA Paid is red, check in with the person that should have received your invoice, check spam and junk folders. If you do not find it, please email accounting@firstwa.org

FLL Challenge Registration Update

We are chugging along, but still have a long way to go!

Registration numbers as of 10-25

Team registration with FIRST Inspires- 480

FIRST Washington registration- 365

Event registration- 334

Paid FIRST Washington- 196 🙁

If you have not yet

  • Paid FIRST Inspires
  • Registrered with FIRSTWA
  • Registered for an Event
  • Paid FIRSTWA

Please do so ASAP! I need to balance events and order awards!

FLL Explore Invoice Information

Invoices for FLL Explore have not yet gone out. They will go out at the end of October. These are only sent to the person you indicated on your FIRST Washington registration.

FLL Explore Registration Update

 

We are chugging along, but still have a long way to go!

Registration numbers as of 10-25

Team registration with FIRST Inspires- 88

FIRST Washington registration- 37

Event registration- 18

Paid FIRST Washington- N/A

FLL Blog Volume 9

by | Oct 17, 2023 | FLL, FLL Challenge, FLL Explore

FLL Blog Volume 9

First round of FLL Challenge Invoices went out this week!

The first round of FLL Challenge invoices for the FIRST Washington fee were emailed out yesterday. These went to teams that have registered with FIRST Inspires and have filled out the FIRST Washington registration. They were sent to the person you indicated on your FIRST Washington registration as the one that should receive your invoice. 

If you have not received an invoice, before you emeil me, STOP!

  • Have you checked with the person you indicated on your FIRST Washington registration?
  • Have you checked your SPAM/JUNK folder?
  • Have you completed your registration with FIRST Inspires?
  • Have you completed your FIRST Washington registration?

If you are unsure of the last 2, you can check here. 

If you have done all of these things, and all of your registrations are current and you still do not have one, you may email me on FRIDAY, 10/20. We will be sending out a second batch of FLL invoices soon, and then should be sending 1 batch per week until all have been sent out. 

 

Registration

Registration Information and Help

Registration still seems to be an issue for the programs, so I am going to share the same thing from last weeks coaches chat.

 

1. Your first step is to do your Team Registration with FIRST Inspires (firstinspires.org). You will need to log in on the website and go to your dashboard to register.

Then you are going to want to go complete the FIRST Washington registration and the Event Registration on firstwa.org.

FIRST Washington registration for both Challenge and Explore is similar, but for this I am only going to show Challenge.

Challenge registration is here- https://firstwa.org/challenge-registration/ 
Expolre registration is here- https://firstwa.org/explore-registration/ 

2. When you click the FIRST Washington registration button, it takes you to a page that looks like this-

3. When you click on the event registration button, it takes you to a page that looks like this- 

When you fill out the FIRST Washington registration and the event registration, you are going to want your team number from your FIRST Inspires dashboard. If you have not paid yet and are a rookie, this number will start with 2023.

Not sure if you have registered of filled out the registrations with FIRST Washington? 

4. Make sure you are checking the Team Status Sheet

Both Challenge and Explore have the same registrations forms, type of links and status sheets. Make sure you are checking them if you have questions. 

They are updated once a day manually, so keep that in mind when you are checking please 🙂

Event Assignments!

I have started to make tentative event assignments for the teams that have paid their FIRST Washington registration fee! Look for those to be posted by the end of the week!

Assignments are made on a first come first served basis, so don’t wait! Events will fill up!

FTC Blog – Volume 10 – Invoices went out 10-16

by | Oct 17, 2023 | FTC

FTC Blog – Volume 10 – Invoices went out 10-16

FTC Invoices went out Monday, October 16

If your FTC team was registered with FIRST HQ and FIRST Washington, you should have received your invoice yesterday.

Invoices were sent to the person designated on your FIRST Washington registration form.

 

The invoice was sent from accounting@firstwa.org so check you spam folder if you don’t see it.  If you did not receive your invoice, send an email to accounting@firstwa.org and include your team number in the subject line of the email.

 

 

FTC Coaches Chat – Tuesday, October 17 at 7:00 pm

We will be having our next Coaches Chat next Tuesday at 7:00 pm.  Some of the things we will be talking about on the meeting are:

  •  Leagues
  • Invoices
  • Event Schedule
  • What happens at events

There will also be time for you all to connect and chat about how your season is going so far.

 

FTC Coaches Chat Meeting Link

FTC Blog Volume 9 – Leagues will be posted Friday

by | Oct 12, 2023 | FTC

FTC Blog Volume 9 – Leagues will be posted Friday

League Assignments should be posted by end of the day Friday, October 13

In order to be placed in a league, you must be registered with FIRST Washington.  

If you do not see your team on the list, it is probably because you have not registered with FIRST Washinton

We are working on posting the league information and will try to have all of that up by Friday evening as well but some leagues may not have info posted until Monday, October 16.

Event communication witll come from your League Coordinator.

Click Here

FTC Invoices should be sent out no later than Monday, October 16

In order to participate in your league events, you must have secured your FIRST Washington Registration.  

Those that filled out the registration form prior to the grant deadline (September 30) and requested a grant, should see grant funds applied to their invoice.

If you registered after the deadline, you may see some grant funds but you may also be responsible for the full $925.

 

 

FTC Build Day, October 14

As mentioned on our coaches chat, we will be having an FTC build day at our fieldhouse in Kent on Saturday, October 14.  This is an opportunity for teams to bring their robot (or robot parts) and collaborate with other teams while working on their robot.  Additionally, we will have a copmetition field set up for teams to practice on (if they are to that point)  The build day is really an open house format but we are asking teams to register.  Out of respect for our volunteers time, if we don’t have enough interest, we will cancel the build day.

 

Details and sign up is below:

  • Who:  Any rookie or veteran FTC team
  • What:  FTC Build Day
  • When:  October 14, 10 am – 3:00 pm
  • Where:  FIRST Washington Fielhouse 22426

Teams are required to register.  It is important for you to put your arrival time, an estimate for the number of students is just fine.

FTC Build Day Registration

FTC Coaches Chat – Tuesday, October 17 at 7:00 pm

We will be having our next Coaches Chat next Tuesday at 7:00 pm.  Some of the things we will be talking about on the meeting are:

  •  Leagues
  • Invoices
  • Event Schedule
  • What happens at events

There will also be time for you all to connect and chat about how your season is going so far.

 

FTC Coaches Chat Meeting Link