From SWRiSE, $25/team includes Fair admission:
16 FTC teams can participate, and registration deadline is Fri May 12. Saturday, June 10: FIRST® Tech Challenge Contest I am excited to inform you that official registration is now OPEN! Here is the link directly to the registration page on the fair website: https://sdfair.com/contests/summer-of-robotics/ We look forward to seeing you register and seeing your team this summer at the San Diego County Fair! Please let me know if you have any questions! Thank you! Samantha Hamilton - Program Manager SouthWest Robotics in Science Education (SWRISE) PO Box 712077, Santee, CA 92072-2077 (619) 493-2268 www.swrise.org For updates on SWRiSE, like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/swrise
0 Comments
Teams who would like to participate in an FTC invitational event in Reno, NV, check out their announcement. Out of state teams just have to pay $50 to enter, see link to register:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTEvw0U1YmsmSNzf83n7TaC7i40BDArhZqq2bL_AAPKVBmHg/viewform Any questions - send to info@firstnevada.org The annual Society of Women Engineers Exploring Technology (SWEET) event is usualy only for middle school girls, but this year they are open for high school girls as well. The event is on the UCSD campus on April 22. Tickets are limited so get yours soon!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/society-of-women-engineers-exploring-technology-sweet-dare-to-be-a-force-of-nature-tickets-32245859233
UPDATED:
3848 Shockwave and 11128 Inspiration have both won a lottery spot for Worlds - congratulations! So now San Diego FTC has 5 teams heading to Houston for Worlds:
For anyone interested in going to see the World Championship, FIRST is seeking adult and student volunteers:
Student Ambassador Opportunities Are you a FIRST® participant attending the FIRST® Championship? Consider becoming a Student Ambassador! This is a great opportunity to spend quality time with Sponsors and other special guests of FIRST. As part of the FIRST Championship, we ask FIRST participants to assist us in providing fun and exciting tours to our generous Sponsors and other special guests. We know our students are our best tour guides, and our guests would love to meet you! Volunteer to be a Student Ambassador at the FIRST Championship this year and show our guests what FIRST is all about. This role will be one to two hours during the entire event. To volunteer as a Student Ambassador:
Volunteers Needed for FIRST® Tech Challenge World Championship If you’re interested in volunteering for the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship, sign up today! Just log into the Volunteer Information and Matching System (VIMS), fill out the required information, and request your preferred roles. We need judges, queuers, and load in and load out crew members. We have a role for everyone! We are now compiling news items - whether newspaper, radio, TV, or podcast - about the San Diego FTC teams. If you have any items to submit to us, please send them to web@sdftc.org
So far we have over 25 news items since 2007, but there may be a lot more. Don't be shy - let the world know about your team! http://www.sdftc.org/about-sdftc--team-news.html#TeamNews http://www.sdftc.org/team-news-2007-2014.html UPDATED AT 5PM: Now #1 after 7 matches. Competition to resume Sunday morning. Rankings and match scores updated online. After 6 out of 9 matches, 4216 Rise of Hephaestus has won all 6 thus earning 12 QP and is now ranked #1 in the Cascade Division! Keep it going!!
Rankings for Cascade and Olympic Divisions are now online but update somewhat slower than the videofeed: http://ftcwest.org/cascade-team-ranking/ http://ftcwest.org/olympic-team-ranking/ Great to have our FTC teams reaching out to the community during the FRC Regional at the Del Mar Fairgrounds!
Also, congratulations to Dan Glenn - Volunteer of the Year Award Winner at the FRC Regional (while also being a co-coach for FTC 10092 Green.Griffins)!! For those interested in catching some our local teams' matches, here are the match schedules with our teams' matches highlighted for 10092 Green.Griffins, 9441 Syndicate, 8471 The Ducks, and 4216 Rise of Hephaestus. They've just taken a break for lunch up in Tacoma, but they will re-start at 1:00pm with match 31 on Olympic Division and match 29 on Cascade Division. The grayed out matches have already been played, and progress has been about 8 matches/hour. They'll be competing from 1-6:30pm Sat, and 8:30-11am Sun, and then Alliance Selection will occur with Semi-Finals and Finals from 1-4pm on Sunday.
The links for schedule, videostreams, and match results are at FTCWest.org, or we have the links to videostreams in the our previous blog post. |
Archives
November 2023
Categories
All
|