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FLL Blog Volume 8

by | Oct 10, 2023 | FLL, FLL Challenge, FLL Explore

FLL Blog Volume 8

Coaches Chat this Thursday!

Join us on Thursday October 12th at 7pm for our October Coaches Chat!

Join Meeting
Registration!

Many FLL Challenge and Explore Teams have not Filled out their Registrations!

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FLL Challenge

If you have not done so yet, teams are required to fill out both the FIRST Washington registration and the Event registration. 

Challenge Registration
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FLL Explore

If you have not done so yet, teams are required to fill out both the FIRST Washington registration and the Event registration. 

Explore Registration
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Team Status Reports

If you are unsure if you have filled out the required registrations- Status reports for both programs are posted online!

Challenge Status
Explore Status

FIRST Washington Invoices

For FLL Challenge– Invoices for the $350 FIRST Washington fee should go out the 3rd week of October. They will be sent to the person you indicated should receive your invoice on your FIRST Washington registration.

For FLL Explore– Invoices should go out the end of October. They will be sent to the person you indicated should receive your invoice on your FIRST Washington registration.

If you have not filled out the FIRST Washington registration, you will not receive an invoice, and will not be eligible to attend any events.

 

FTC Blog Volume 8 – FTC Build day Oct 14th

by | Oct 5, 2023 | FTC

FTC Blog Volume 8 – FTC Build day Oct 14th

Washing State Public & Tribal Compact Schools

Be sure to log onto your dashboard and fill out your team and payment information.  It is important that this information be filled out by Friday, October 6.

Teams Form:
This is asking you for information related to the team(s) at your school. We are considering additional funding for schools with more than one team registered with FIRST Washington. As a result, we need you to enter the teams you have registered with FIRST Washington and commit to having those teams compete to receive that additional funding.  If you are waiting to complete your payment with firstinspires, and are a rookie team, please enter the temporary number you received when starting your registration.

Payment Information:
This form is asking 3 things:

    • Who your check should made out to (School District or School Building, ASB School Cashier)
    • Address the check should be mailed to
    • Whose Attention the email should be sent to

*** It is your responsibility to know what your district’s policies are regarding receiving grant funds. If you are unsure how to fill out this information, please contact your administration to find out what you should do. WE CANNOT ADVISE YOU ON WHO CHECKS SHOULD ME MADE OUT TO BECAUSE EVERY DISTRICT HAS A DIFFERENT POLICY. ***

To access these forms, the profile user must login and you must click on the square with the school’s name inside of the link that was sent to you. The additional forms will appear there. Please take notice of the fact that it no longer says IN REVIEW and is now blue and says PRE-AWARD INTAKE.

We recognize these are some extra steps but ask for your patience as we work through the process.  This is new for us as well as you and we are learning as we go.

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League Assignments should be posted by October 13

It looks like we may have 171 FTC teams participating with us this season which is amazing!!!!

Kevin Emery and I will be working to put all teams into existing leagues (and create some new ones) and we plan to have that info posted on firstwa.org by October 13

 

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 Fieldhouse – 22426 72nd Ave. S. Kent, WA 98032

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

FRC Blog Volume 7 – 2nd event preferencing starts this today at 9 am

by | Oct 5, 2023 | FRC

FRC Blog Volume 7 – 2nd event preferencing starts this today at 9 am

Washington State Public & Tribal Compact Schools

Be sure to log onto your dashboard and fill out your team and payment information.  It is important that this information be filled out by Friday, October 6.

Teams Form:
This is asking you for information related to the team(s) at your school. We are considering additional funding for schools with more than one team registered with FIRST Washington. As a result, we need you to enter the teams you have registered with FIRST Washington and commit to having those teams compete to receive that additional funding.  If you are waiting to complete your payment with firstinspires, and are a rookie team, please enter the temporary number you received when starting your registration.

Payment Information:
This form is asking 3 things:

    • Who your check should made out to (School District or School Building, ASB School Cashier)
    • Address the check should be mailed to
    • Whose Attention the email should be sent to

*** It is your responsibility to know what your district’s policies are regarding receiving grant funds. If you are unsure how to fill out this information, please contact your administration to find out what you should do. WE CANNOT ADVISE YOU ON WHO CHECKS SHOULD ME MADE OUT TO BECAUSE EVERY DISTRICT HAS A DIFFERENT POLICY. ***

To access these forms, the profile user must login and you must click on the square with the school’s name inside of the link that was sent to you. The additional forms will appear there. Please take notice of the fact that it no longer says IN REVIEW and is now blue and says PRE-AWARD INTAKE.

We recognize these are some extra steps but ask for your patience as we work through the process.  This is new for us as well as you and we are learning as we go.  

Click here

2nd round of Event preferencing opens at 9 am Today, Oct 5

 

Log into your dash board on firstinspires.org to select your preferences for your first event

Remember:

  1.  You are no longer guaranteed a spot in your home event.
  2. We currently have 127 teams registered this year (which is SO exciting!) and are expecting a few more so space will be tight.  Many of you will end up on the waitlist for your events after this round of preferencing.  I will be prioritizing moving our rookie teams into their events first so if you are a veteran team, you may not hear from me until Monday, October 16 about your event options.  Thanks for being patient and letting me take care of our new teams!

 

 

 

2023 FRC Workshops – hosted by 2557 SOTAbots

 

Location :  Science and Math Institiute Environmental Learning Center, Point Defiance Zoo, Tacoma

Date: November 18, 2023

Time: 9:00 – 3:30

Lunch:  $5 – sign up onsite

Call for Presenters : 

  • It is always great to see new faces presenting on topics of interest to all. 
  • Please send your presentation Title, a short description and time needed ( 1 or 2 hours) to the following email     sotabots@gmail.com
  • Please have your proposals in by October 31 at the latest.

FLL Blog Volume 7

by | Oct 3, 2023 | FLL, FLL Challenge, FLL Explore

FLL Blog Volume 7

In this weeks blog, we talk all about registration for the FLL programs!

If you have not yet registered, please do so asap! 

FLL Challenge Registrations!

FIRST Washington Registration-

Every team must complete this registration in order to participate with FIRST Washington.. This is seperate from the Team Registration at firstinspires.org.

As of today, 421 teams have been registered with FIRST Inspires. Of those, 217 have registered with FIRST Washington.

Every Participating team must fill this out. If you have more than one team, please fill out a seperate form for each one!

 

FLL Challenge Event Registration-

Every team wanting to attend an event must fill out this form and give me their 3 event preferences.

Before a team is confirmed in their event, they must secure (by check, card, or PO) their FIRST Washington fee. Invoices for this fee will be emailed in mid October to the person you indicated should receive your invoice on your FIRST Washington registration.

Only 141 teams have filled out the event registration for FLL Challenge.

 

Challenge REgistrations
Explore!

FLL Explore Registrations!

FIRST Washington Registration-

Every team must complete this registration in order to participate with FIRST Washington.. This is seperate from the Team Registration at firstinspires.org.

As of today, 69 teams have been registered with FIRST Inspires. Of those, 34 have registered with FIRST Washington.

Every Participating team must fill this out. If you have more than one team, please fill out a seperate form for each one!

 

FLL Explore Event Registration-

Every team wanting to attend an event must fill out this form and give me their 2 event preferences.

Before a team is confirmed in their event, they must secure (by check, card, or PO) their FIRST Washington fee. Invoices for this fee will be emailed in mid October (for the first round of events) to the person you indicated should receive your invoice on your FIRST Washington registration.

This registration is open now!!

Explore Registrations

FIRST Washington Team Status Reports

Status reports have been posted on our website for both Challenge and Explore. 

Please check the report before you email me and ask if I have received your registrations. 

Understand that these are updated manually by me. I do my best to do it daily, but sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day 🙂

When FIRST Washington invoices go out, this will also reflect when you have secured your registration. 

If all goes well, event assignments should go out the begining of November!  

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FLL Challenge

Team Status Report

Challenge Status
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FLL Explore

Team Status Report

Explore Status

Coaches Chat!

Our next coaches chat is October 12th! We will be talking about registration and events, as well as answering your questions!

Hope you can join us!

Meeting Link

FLL Blog Volume 6

by | Sep 26, 2023 | FLL, FLL Challenge, FLL Explore

FLL Blog Volume 6

There are lots of deadlines this week, so be sure to read the entire blog! 

I don’t want anyone missing anything! 🙂

Event Registration is for FLL Challenge Open!

*FLL Explore Registration coming soon, by 10/2

That’s right, it is finally open! I appreciate everyone’s patience.

Teams will be asked to select three event preferences. Please do not select the same event for all 3, unless it is the only event in driving distance.

Teams will be confirmed in their events once they have-

  1. Registered their team with firstinspires.org
  2. Registered their team with firstwa.org
  3. Secured their FIRST Washington invoice (by credit card, check or P.O.) Invoices will be sent out in October

I will post Assignments in November on firstwa.org, not on your dashboard.

Registration

OSPI Grant Closes this Friday, September 29th!

If you are a Public or Tribal Compact School, make sure you submit your OSPI grant by 5:00pm on Friday, 9/29! 

 

OSPI Grant

Two Registrations Close on September 30th!

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FIRST Washington Registration

The FIRST Washington registration will close on September 30th, as well as the FIRST Washington grant! If you have not filled this out, do it now! All Explore and Challenge teams are required to submit to participate

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FIRST Team Registration

For FLL Challenge teams- Team registration with FIRST Inspires will close September 30th! Make sure your team is registered! (If you are waiting on funding from OSPI, email me 🙂 )

FIRST Registration
FIRSTWA Challenge Registration
FIRSTWA Explore Registration