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Team Email Blasts Dec. 2 2024| 0 KB

Content Type: FIRST Robotics Competition
Tags: Awards, Mentor, Team
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Archive of FIRST® Robotics Competition team email blasts:

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Team Blast 11-27-2024:

  • Round 1 of FIRST® Choice closing soon
  • MySite rollover deadline extended until December 2
  • Thanksgiving Holiday hours
  • Let's keep in touch
  • Introducing the future mobile robot controller
  • Additional upcoming deadlines: Founder's Reception registration

Team Blast 11-21-24:

  • Safety Animation Award 
  • Season Registration Payment Deadline 
  • Thanksgiving Holiday Hours 
  • FIRST Choice and Virtual Kit of Parts have Launched for the 2025 Season! 
  • Resources of the week: Prepare for Kickoff
  • Upcoming Deadlines: Safety Animation Award Deadline, MySite Roll-Over, FIRST Choice Priority List Round 1 Closes, and Founder's Reception Registration Closes

Team Blast 11-14-24:

  • Round 1 of FIRST Choice is now open
  • Pre-Kickoff Virtual Kit Release
  • Express Enrollment
  • 2025 rule updates
  • Important radio firmware update
  • Dive into the Digital Animation Award
  • Resources of the week: Business Plan template
  • Upcoming deadlines: Safety Animation Award and MySite Roll-Over

Team Blast 11-7-24:

  • Additional Inter-District event registration now open
  • Grant funding and purchase orders reminders
  • 2025 season sneak peak
  • Founder's Reception
  • Kickoff broadcast
  • Resource of the week: Intro to Scouting
  • Dr. Bart Kamen Scholarship now open

Team Blast 10-31-24:

  • Additional Event Registration now open
  • FIRST Impact, Woodie Flowers, and Dean's List awards portal now open
  • Event volunteer registration now open
  • Team registration payment deadline due November 12
  • 2025 legal devices
  • Upcoming important dates
  • Resource of the week: Fundraising Guide

Team Blast 10-24-24:

  • Closing soon! Round 2 Event Preferencing
  • Late registration for second event
  • Unrestricted event registration
  • Opening Soon! Award submissions
  • Gracious Professionalism® and ethics
  • Resource of the week: Guide to Selecting Drivers and Improving Driver Performance
  • Extended hours

Team Blast 10-17-24:

  • Round 2 Event Preferencing now open
  • Kit & Kickoff Registration
  • 2025 Safety Animation Sponsored by UL Solutions now open
  • Control System Beta Testing & Usage Reporting
  • Resource of the week: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • "Get Anywhere" campaign
  • Register youth members
  • Express Enrollment

Team Blast 10-10-24:

  • NEXT WEEK! Round 2 Event Preferencing
  • Late registration for first event
  • Field & robot damage updates
  • FIRST Event Preferencing by the numbers
  • Judging updates
  • Reminder! Team registration payment deadline is November 12, 2024
  • Season calendar
  • Resources of the week: Mental Health
  • Upcoming holiday hours
  • Update your mentor roster
  • Additional mentor screening
  • Walk like Woodie Day
  • Opportunity for FIRST Alumni attending the SWE Conference

Team Blast 10-3-24:

  • Closing soon! Round 1 Event Preferencing
  • Late registration for first event
  • Reminder! Program deadlines
  • 2025 Safety Animation award theme released
  • Regrant portal now open
  • Resources of the week: Outreach Plan & Community Engagement worksheets
  • 2025 Inspire the Future: FIRST Recognition Program
  • Opportunity for FIRST Alumni in the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

Team Blast 9-26-24:

  • Now Open! Round 1 of Event Preferencing
  • Now Open! Kit & Kickoff registration
  • Regional Advancement Task Force update
  • Game piece presales
  • Sales tax information
  • Resources of the week: Prototyping 101 and Prototyping worksheet
  • Youth Registration
  • Express Enrollment
  • Opportunity for Women FIRST Alumni in Engineering

Team Blast 9-19-24:

  • NEXT WEEK! KitBot & Kit Opt Outs
  • NEXT WEEK! Round 1 Event Preferencing
  • Payment reminders and tips
  • Grant season
  • Resources of the week: Event Preferencing User Guide and FAQ

Team Blast 9-12-24:

  • KitBot & Kit Opt Outs
  • Coming soon! Round 1 Event Preferencing
  • 2025 Event listings
  • Alliance Selection Task Force update
  • Resources of the week: How to Organize your Team and Effective Leadership
  • Youth Registration
  • Express Enrollment

Team Blast 9-5-24:

  • NASA Team Grant
  • Resource of the Week: Team Recruitment Flyers
  • FIRST® Tech Challenge Kickoff
  • 2025 FIRST® Scholarship Program now live

Team Blast 8-29-24:

  • Team Blast schedule
  • MySite ship fee updates
  • Youth Protection renewal reminder
  • Drive Base & Black Tote Opt out
  • Resource of the week: Mentor Guide
  • Season DLC is now available
  • Labor Day Holiday hours
  • Extended hours for Team Support
  • DonorsChoose campaign

Team Blast 8-22-24:

  • Regional evet changes for the 2025 season
  • Grant season
  • New education resource
  • New funding campaign with DonorsChoose
  • Make a splash with machining skills

Team Blast 8-8-24:

  • FIRST Choice & registration voucher
  • Team Resources
  • Season Calendar
  • 2025 Season registration
  • 2024-2025 FIRST LEGO League season launched
  • Youth Protection screening renewal reminder
  • Explore this season with Kahoot!
  • Qualcomm is diving deep into innovation

Team Blast 7-25-24:

  • 2024 KitBot review
  • FIRST® account maintenance reminder
  • Team Tip - Delegate & designate
  • Celebrate the 2024 FIRST Volunteer of the Year

Team Blast 7-11-24:

  • 2025 Season Registration now open
  • Drive Base & Black Tote Opt-out now open
  • Season Calendar
  • FIRST account maintenance reminder

Team Blast 6-27-24:

  • FIRST HQ July 1-5 closure
  • FIRST Championship updates
  • New Chief Field Supervisor
  • Radios at 2024 Off-Season events
  • Upcoming Deadline! Regrants deadline is June 30
  • Youth Protection screening renewal reminder
  • Hack Club Arcade

Team Blast 6-13-24:

  • The FIRST Robotics Competition Blog has moved
  • New District for the 2025 season
  • 2025 Season Registration now open
  • U.S. Juneteenth Holiday hours
  • Reminder! Regrants deadline

Team Blast 5-30-24:

  • End of Season survey
  • Season Calendar
  • Summer Task Force feedback
  • Regrants
  • Matching gift program
  • Team 67 Time Capsule
  • FIRST Scholarship provider TKS

Team Blast 5-16-24:

  • End of Season survey
  • 2024 Kit of Parts survey
  • Summer Task Forces
  • Drive Base & Black Tote Opt-out now open
  • Summer team blast schedule
  • 2024-2025 FIRST® DIVESM presented by Qualcomm season registration now open
  • Twelfth Annual FIRST & U.S. Air Force Leadership Experience
  • FIRST Signing Day on May 20
  • FIRST Scholarship provider TKS

Team Blast 5-9-24:

  • FIRST Dashboard maintenance; no team blast was sent.

Team Blast 4-25-2024:

  • Congratulations FIRST Championship winners!
  • Join us for the 2025 REEFSCAPESM presented by Haas
  • Upcoming FIRST Dashboard maintenance
  • Twelfth Annual FIRST & U.S. Air Force Leadership Experience
  • 2024 National Advovacy Conference

Team Blast 4-16-2022:

  •  FIRST Championship event; no team blast was sent.

Team Blast 4-9-2024:

  • 2024 Kit of Parts Survey
  • No Team Blast Email next week
  • FIRST Championship information
  • 2024-2025 FIRST Season theme reveal
  • FIRST Dashboard maintenance scheduled from May 5-11
  • 2024 National Advocacy Conference

Team Blast 4-2-2024:

  • FIRST Championship details
  • Addressing field and robot damage
  • Robot shipping & District teams
  • FIRST Championship Conferences
  • FIRST Championship Student Ambassador Program
  • Thank you, volunteers!

Team Blast 3-26-24:

  • Team Updates
  • FIRST Championship Robot Transportation
  • 2024 National Advocacy Conference
  • Youth Advisory Councils

Team Blast 3-19-24:

  • Observations from an FTA
  • Event surveys
  • Bid for a cause

Team Blast 3-12-24:

  • Extended team and Pit Admin support hours
  • Event Reminders
  • FIRST Championship information
  • 2024 National Advocacy Conference

Team Blast 3-5-24:

  • Event surveys
  • Week 1 Events Wrap Up
  • Express Enrollment
  • Virtual auction

Team Blast 2-29-24:

  • Livestream events
  • Driver Station update
  • Youth Protection reminders & updates
  • FIRST Championship Robot Transportation
  • Volunteer at a FIRST® Robotics Competition event

Team Blast 2-22-24:

  • New Team Blast schedule during event season
  • Events begin this week
  • Event Surveys
  • Gracious Professionalism® at events
  • Extended Team and Pit Admin support hours
  • FIRST and Career & Technical Education

Team Blast 2-15-24:

  • FIRST Impact Award submissions due soon
  • FIRST Championship details
  • 2024 scoreboard graphics
  • 2024 FIRST Championship team housing
  • Express Enrollment

Team Blast 2-8-2024:

  • Dean's List and Woodie Flowers Awards submissions due soon
  • FIRST Impact Award deadlines due next week
  • Digital Animation Award winners
  • Last call! FIRST Championship Conferences proposals
  • Diary of an Innovator Team 1466

Team Blast 2-1-2024:

  • Next week! Woodie Flowers and Dean's List Awards submission deadlines
  • Team Updates
  • Events begin soon
  • 2024 Team Avatars
  • Dr. Bart Kamen Memorial FIRST Scholarship closing soon
  • Diary of an Innovator Team 1880
  • FIRST Championship Conferences proposals

Team Blast 1-25-24:

  • FIRST Choice regular ordering opens soon
  • The role of mentors
  • Winner of 2024 Safety Animation Award sponsored by UL Solutions
  • FIRST Championship Housing
  • Camp guides
  • Job opportunity available
  • Dr. Bart Kamen Memorial FIRST Scholarship closing soon
  • Diary of an Innovator Team 3316

Team Blast 1-18-24:

  • Next week! Payment deadline for additional events
  • Reminder! Award submissions
  • Today! Digital Animation Award submissions due
  • Regular Ordering for FIRST Choice opens next week
  • Express Enrollment
  • Diary of an Innovator Team 6328
  • FIRST Championship Conferences proposals

Team Blast 1-11-24:

  • The 2024 season has kicked off
  • Important! Reporting missing or damaged Kickoff Kit parts
  • Round 2 of FIRST Choice now open
  • Digital Animation Award submissions closing soon
  • Official Q&A now open
  • Team Updates
  • Virtual Kit of Parts
  • KitBot revealed
  • Martin Luther King Jr. holiday hours
  • Dr. Bart Kamen Memorial FIRST Scholarship closing soon

Team Blast 1-4-24:

  • All things Kickoff!
  • New radios at 2024 FIRST Championship
  • Don't miss important season information
  • FIRST Championship Conferences
  • Thank you, coaches & mentors!

Team Blast 12-21-23:

  • 2024 Kickoff
  • A message about Gracious Professionalism®
  • District Championship allocations
  • KitBot shopping list
  • FIRST HQ office closure
  • Team blast schedule
  • Explore career opportunities
  • Dr. Bart Kamen Memorial FIRST Scholarship reminder

Team Blast 12-14-23:

  • 2024 Kickoff information
  • Tech preview released
  • Team resources
  • 2024 FIRST Championship housing now open
  • Express Enrollment

Team Blast 12-7-23:

  • Event Rules updates
  • KitBot shopping list
  • Digital Animation Award sponsored by AutomationDirect.com
  • CRESCENDOSM presented by Haas tech preview
  • Team Tip
  • 2024 FIRST Championship housing now open
  • 2024 Safety Animation Award submissions due soon
  • Tech Previews
  • 2024 FIRST Championship team housing
  • Inspire the Future: FIRST Educators Recognition Program
  • FIRST Inspires Gala Auction now open