Wednesday, October 9, 2019

FTC Oregon: October 9, 2019


Feels like fall!
Good time to hunker down and build a robot! Turn up the music!  But... before you do.

1) CHECKLIST FOR REGISTRATION : Is your team????
  •  ▢ nationally registered and paid for the national registration. 
  •  ▢ submitted an FTC Oregon Event application 
    • Deadline for League signup participation is October 15
    • Deadline for Non-League sign up is Nov 1
  •  ▢ paid ORTOP for either League Participation (Deadline Oct 31) or Non-League Tournament (Nov 16)
  • team name change in case you submitted TBD or Unknown at this time - then CLICK HERE AND submit your team name  with your team number. 
Click here to see Resource Page for Registration/Sign ups 

Click and Check your team's status!  - It gets updated after 3 pm each day. Please note, this is a comparison between Last Season and This Season - info in Columns C- F are from Rover Ruckus. Once Registration closes, we will publish current Team Info for Skystone. 

Please do not procrastinate these tasks. Especially if you want to be part of a league, please sign up as soon as possible so that I can go forward with planning for the events happening this month. 


2) WORKSHOP TRAINING :
FIRST Fair - Saturday, October 19th
at Gladstone HS 
18800 Portland Ave, Gladstone, OR 97027
Judging from the number of sign-ups I don't think many of you have clicked on the provided links to learn about this valuable opportunity.
Here are the complete Class Descriptions   and the Schedule of Classes.   Some require signing up, most do not. Sessions** requiring sign-ups up are here. 
Team members, mentors and team parents are welcome to attend.

Here are the titles of what is being offered for specifically for FTC to peak your interest. 
TIMEWORKSHOP
9:30 AM - 10:25 AMFTC Mechanical Overview for Rookies - Also a GO TO TRAINING Workshop
9:30 AM - 10:25 AMFTC Preparing to pass Inspection/What's new!
10:30:00 AM - 11:25 AM FTC Overview of Skystone (for Team Members)
10:30:00 AM - 11:25 AM FTC Mentor Roundtable
Overview for new mentors by having a discussion with experienced mentors
10:30:00 AM - 11:25 AM Overview: Using TensorFlow to Locate Scoring Objects on the FTC Field - Applying Deep Learning / Also a GO TO TRAINING session
11:30 AM - 1:00 PMFTC Referee Training for Skystone (REFEREES ONLY)
11:30 AM - 12:25 PMStrategies for keeping up with the FTC Engineering Notebook throughout the season so that you have a good notebook to turn in at competition.
11:30 AM - 12:25 PMFTC - Ask The FIELD TECHNICAL ADVISOR: Ask about all that techy stuff - phones, SDK installs, navitagating GitHub, what's Vuforia?
1:00 PM - 2:55 PM2 hours - FTC OnBot Java PROGRAMMING** sign up 

TITLES  of SESSIONS FOR BOTH FTC AND FRC 


3)   This week on the ORTOP FTC Resource Page we are highlighting KEY links that are hard to find on the national FTC page. 





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