Message from FIRST President Don Bossi.
This week's topics:
- On the FTC Oregon email/blog list or Off the FTC Oregon email/blog list? At this point in the season several FTC Oregon people are in transition to move on to new projects or people wanting to join our group or STAY ON THE LIST. Due to GDPR regulations, we will be deleting the entire list and starting with a brand new subscription list at the beginning of fall 2019. To help me manage this process please click here and fill out our change form.
- ORTOP Team Support Award application process is open! ORTOP has several corporate sponsors, private foundations and the Oregon Department of Education funding (hopefully) to allow us to provide financial team support awards to teams. Take time to read the ORTOP Team Support Award application information, decide if you want or need to apply, download the worksheet, collect the needed information, and finally submit the online application. Dates and deadlines are on the info page.
- PLEASE NOTE: If your school/organization received an ORTOP Team Support Award Check last season (Rover Ruckus) , and you haven't submitted a final report yet, you'll be ineligible to apply for funding for 2019-2020. So please submit the report if you haven't already. Unsure if you did or didn't, drop Cathy an email and I'll check.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS ONLINE REPORT
- National Registration is now open! You can register your team(s) for the 2019-2020 SKYSTONE season.....$275 pays for National Registration. Participation in FTC Oregon Events is a separate fee. The costs will be the same as last season.
- Rookie teams can apply for a national rookie team grant to cover the $275 national registration cost and receive $225 in grant credit toward product.
- MAKING FIRST LOUD! Is your team offering a summer camp for FIRST Tech Challenge kids or FIRST LEGO League kids? If so let is know about it and we'll add it to the ORTOP Summer Workshop/Activities page Send an email with all the information and flyer if you have one to cathy-swider(at)ortop(dot)org
- Do you know of any new schools or organizations that want to start a FIRST Tech Challenge team? Please connect them with ORTOP - cathy-swider(at)ortop(dot)org
- Do you think your school might be a great place to hold a tournament or a league this season? And have your team(s) be hosts? Send Cathy an email and we can talk about it.
- Portland Community College - Sylvania Campus Machine Shop Camp - SW Portland - MANY openings are still available for the All Young Women's Camp - July 8 - 12 - Click here for more information and application This is an awesome camp for young women in FIRST Tech Challenge. Please pass along this information to the young women on your team(s). Applicants must be 14 years old by the start of camp.
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SKYSTONE: FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Timeline .....Star Wars edition - kinda makes you want to click seeing that it's the Star Wars edition and all. This document will be an evolving document this season. I'll be adding more to it as information and key requirements/activities become concrete. Bookmark it and check it! - SKYSTONE GAME ELEMENT ORDERING
- You didn't hear it here first. shhhhh..... but full set of SKYSTONE game elements will be $450 plus shipping ---OR---- a half set (red or blue) will be $300 plus shipping. AndyMark link for ordering Skystone game elements.
- Pre-Kickoff - Team Orders must be placed no later than 8/23/2019 to begin shipping on 9/9/2019. Orders will be fulfilled in the order they are received. All Team orders will begin shipping 9/9/2019 (no Saturday deliveries)
- You can always order a set after kick-off but it will take a few weeks to ship.
AND FINALLY!
