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Greetings Florida FTC Teams, Coaches, Volunteers, and Sponsors:

I am looking forward to seeing everyone’s robots navigating the CENTERSTAGESM field at events starting in about a month.  The leagues have scheduled more events and most of the events are available for volunteers to register in the FIRST Volunteer Management System and available in the event registration system on the www.flfirst.org website. This Florida FTC newsletter includes information on how to register to attend your league events. Encourage all teams to attend your league scrimmage to help build on this season’s theme of “Teams Helping Teams”.  For all of the veteran teams, this is your chance to connect with rookie teams and help them make progress with their robot design.

 

The following are the topics covered in this Florida FTC newsletter:

  1. League Event Dates & Locations
  2. How to Register to Attend League Events
  3. Florida Championship T-shirt Design Contest (Repeat)
  4. Season Theme (Teams Helping Teams) and Video Contest (Repeat)

Read more: E-Mail:2023/09/23

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Greetings Florida FTC Teams, Coaches, Volunteers, and Sponsors:

CENTERSTAGESM presented by Raytheon Technologies is here and it is time for teams to start designing your robots. The game manuals have been published on the FIRST website as well as the game animation video. Make sure that you also review the updates to Game Manual Part 1 as it includes the detailed build rules for the two team game elements.  I hope everyone is excited about scoring Pixels, creating Mosaics, and of course we cannot forget about scoring the Drone.  I cannot wait to see all of the different robot design ideas.

If you were not able to attend the Florida FTC Season Kick-off event, it is available on the FIRST in Florida YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1tGVmHzxWE). The following topics in this email newsletter provide you with information on how to learn more about the season:

 

The following are the topics covered in this Florida FTC newsletter:

  1. How to Find CENTERSTAGESM Game Information
  2. Important Change to Field Setup
  3. Florida Championship T-shirt Design Contest
  4. Season Theme (Teams Helping Teams) and Video Contest

Read more: E-Mail:2023/09/12

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Greetings Florida FTC Teams, Coaches, Volunteers, and Sponsors:

Only six days remaining until the CENTERSTAGESM presented by Raytheon Technologies game reveal.  We have another information packed Florida FTC Kick-off planned and it is great opportunity for teams to learn about the new game elements and technology that will be used in the CENTERSTAGESM game.

 

The following are the topics covered in this Florida FTC newsletter:

  1. Florida FTC Remote Kick-off Agenda – September 9, 2023 at 11:45am EDT
  2. FIRST Kickoff Sweepstakes
  3. Rookie Team Grants

Read more: E-Mail: 2023/09/03

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Greetings Florida FTC Teams, Coaches, Volunteers, and Sponsors:

Only two more weeks until the CENTERSTAGESM presented by Raytheon Technologies game reveal.  I hope that all of you join us at 11:45am EDT on September 9, 2023 to learn about the game rules and plans for the Florida FIRST Tech Challenge season.  I also have exciting news about the hard work all of the Florida league leadership teams have been doing to create this season event schedules.  The leagues are ahead of schedule, and I have included the preliminary league event schedules in this email newsletter below.

 

The following are the topics covered in this Florida FTC newsletter:

  1. Florida FTC Remote Kick-off – September 9, 2023 at 11:45pm EDT (Repeat)
  2. League Event Schedule
  3. REV Team Sponsorship Opportunity

Read more: E-Mail: 2023/08/26

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Greetings Florida FTC Teams, Coaches, Volunteers, and Sponsors:

Welcome to the nineteenth (19) Florida FIRST Tech Challenge season (2023-24) and the game CENTERSTAGESM presented by Raytheon Technologies. The five-week countdown to the season kick-off has officially started. On September 9. 2023 we will get answers to questions like: Does the game include any new game elements that we have not seen before, why have sections 7.4 and 7.5 of game manual part 1 been updated to include not just a “Team Scoring Element” but also a “Team Game Element”, why are teams now allowed to user lasers.  What questions do you have?

FIRST team registration is currently open and by the middle of September we will start posting league events that you can register to attend by going to the www.flfirst.org website.  The CENTERSTAGESM game reveal will be on September 9, 2023. As part of the FIRST IN SHOW season, the FIRST Tech Challenge game will celebrate the roles our STEM skills play in the arts and design and build a world of endless possibilities. You can see the season teaser by watching the following video: https://youtu.be/pTvP165wi3E

 

The primary purpose for this email is to provide you more information about the upcoming Florida (online) kick-off event and help you prepare for the coming FIRST Tech Challenge season.  It is never too late to start your engineering notebook and adding team outreach events to build your first steps toward winning the Inspire Award at your League Championship and the Florida Championship.  A great place to start earning your Gracious Professionalism points is to attend a kick-off event and help mentor our Florida rookie team.

 

The following are the topics covered in this Florida FTC newsletter:

1.            Florida FTC Remote Kick-off – September 9, 2023 at 11:45pm EDT

2.            Season Schedule

3.            Team Grant Information

4.            Game Manual Part 1 Available

Read more: E-Mail: 2023/08/06