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FIRST FTC has just released a teaser video for the 2017-2018 season: FIRST Relic Recovery. https://www.firstinspires.org/node/3616 Full details will be released Saturday, September 9, 2017 at Kickoff! 
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From Pam Meistrell of the Rancho Santa Fe FTC teams:
Hello Gauss, Descartes, Euclid & Turing Leagues! If any teams from our FTC Leagues this past season are interested in a final competition opportunity (Velocity Vortex) before everyone takes off for the summer, there is a low-key event at the Del Mar Fairgrounds Sat, June 10. Our school is bringing the field setup/components. $25 fee per team includes a pass for each team member into the Fair – what a deal! No stress – just FUN! So far there are eight FTC teams: Inspiration, Green.Griffins, RSF Intergalactic Dragons, RSF Logitechies, RSF Singularity, RSF NewBees, Correia Middle School, and Point Loma Senior High School. Did I forget anyone? Saturday, June 10 10:00am-4:00pm (might finish earlier) 4th Floor Grandstand at the Fairgrounds Registration deadline has been extended to this Friday 5/19. It might still say the 12th, but it’s been extended. https://sdfair.com/contests/summer-of-robotics/ The Robotics Division number is 5001, and the class number for FTC is 002. If you have any specific questions you can contact Samantha Hamilton at SouthWest Robotics in Science Education [email protected] FTC teams who want to learn Java programming or learn more hardware and electronics techniques may be interested in these summer camps being offered by a group of FTC and FLL teams: Furious Falcons FTC 9920, The Clueless FTC 11212, Inspiration FTC 11128, Abrick Cadabrick FLL July 5-14: JAVA PROGRAMMING for FTC Java language fundamentals Java objects and classes Basic object-oriented programming Hands-on Java Projects for FTC application August 7-10: FIRST TECH CHALLENGE (FTC) Standard hardware assembly Non-standard hardware machining Hand-on works with machining tools Electronic design and driving system "Team Clueless and Furious Falcon have taught Summer camps at All Star Academy last year successfully which some of your teams have helped out. They are expanding the program this year including Team Inspiration. I can vow how successful their programs are. Some of the Inspiration team members had taken the class last year, and it really helped Inspiration team to perform this season. Coach Olivia has multiple FLL Southern California championship teams in her coaching credit. Under her and Shilin's coaching team, they went to the FIRST World Championship twice by being the champions at Legoland and is also heading over to European championship this year. You already know that they are very competitive FTC teams also. Inspiration team had successfully guided six Meadowbrook Middle School FLL teams and their coaches. The six Meadowbrook FLL teams won four first places and two championship titles in their respective qualified tournaments during the 2016-2017 seasons. Two also placed in Southern California championships. We are pretty happy about our first FTC experience also and will share our journey. Please help to spread words of this Summer FIRST training program. It is also part of our FTC/FLL teams fundraising activities and spreading the news of FIRST. Thank you for the consideration." -- Alex Szeto, Coach Team Inspiration For further information, see the attached pdf, go to https://www.all-staracademy.com/robotics-and-more or call Coach Olivia 858-204-0170 for questions. 
FIRST® Australia is pleased to invite teams to apply to compete at the Asia Pacific FTC Invitational (API) from the 14th – 16th of July in Sydney, Australia. API is an annual event with teams competing from around the globe. The vision of this event is to encourage students to network internationally, make lifelong friendships, and learn from each other. This event will be held at Macquarie University in the Sydney suburb of North Ryde (20 minutes northwest of the city). Team registration is $250* AUD per person (attendees may include team members, mentors, parents, siblings and other team supporters). This will include lunches (14th - 16th of July) and dinners (14th - 15th of July) for attendees. There are many hotels in the North Ryde area. Some suggested accommodations can be found on the FIRST Australia website under DDU & API Lodging Options. Team Application and Registration Payment Deadline: 31 May 2017 Apply Now! Updated information will be posted on the www.firstaustralia.org website as it becomes available. If you have questions, please contact Tom Johnson via email at [email protected] * Registration via methods other than credit card will incur an Administration Fee of $10 AUD per person. Also FYI, Macquarie University has offered scholarships to FTC graduates in the past. There are a number of US students from FTC who are studying engineering there. The RoBowties team 6137 participated in the Asia Pacific Invitational (API) in 2015 for Cascade Effect and won Captain of the Finalist Alliance and PTC Design Award. Approximately 30 teams participated in that API, and about 10 were from the United States with the rest mostly from Oceania and Asia regions. If anyone is interested and has questions, email the RoBowties at [email protected]  In case you haven't heard, there will be a new module available for FTC next season from REV Robotics. (It's also being used by FIRST Global, the new international program that Dean Kamen started this year.) Here is a brief list of the main features:
Here is the Official FTC Blog Post about it: http://firsttechchallenge.blogspot.com/2017/04/techevolution.html There are additional links to more information at the end of that blog post too. In addition, there is a thread of questions and some answers from RoboGreg of REV Robotics on the FTC subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FTC/comments/64r1hj/info_new_rev_electronics/ |
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