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(The deadline to apply to this has been extended to May 22nd) Greetings FIRST Teams! We hope you all enjoyed the FIRST Launch season as much as we did! Applications are now open for the Lunar Legacy Robotics Invitational, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. This is your chance to test your robot where NASA tested theirs! When: July 19 and 20, 2019 Exactly 50 years to the day from the 1st Moon Landing Where: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ For: FIRST Lego League “Into Orbit” teams FIRST Tech Challenge “Rover Ruckus” teams Cost: $250 per team Application: https://nau.edu/cstl/robotics/ Deadline: May 15, 2019 Questions: Contact Patti Strones, FIRST VISTA (pstrones@firstinspires.org) In addition to the robotics competition, teams will have the opportunity to participate in professional development sessions and tour historic sites in Flagstaff that supported the Apollo program including Lowell Observatory (where Pluto was discovered) and the “cinders” where NASA tested their Lunar Rover and trained the Apollo Astronauts. The Lunar Legacy Invitational is part of a year-long celebration of Flagstaff’s role in the Apollo missions. You can learn more about the Lunar Legacy events here: https://www.flagstaffarizona.org/go/lunarlegacy/ We hope to see you this summer in Flagstaff! Christine Sapio & Dave Thompson Arizona FIRST Tech Challenge Partners 
 Join us for an exciting week of intensive FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Robot Construction! This camp is for High School students from any school in the San Diego County area entering 9th through 12th grades in the fall. Students are welcome at all knowledge levels, whether you’re just learning about robotics, or if you already have some experience on an FTC Robotics team and want to learn more.
During this weeklong Robotics Boot Camp, students will build a fully functional robot using FTC-approved parts and programming. Each student will learn all aspects of hardware and software design that goes into building an FTC robot. Students will work in small teams to design, build, and program an FTC robot from the ground up. The FTC robots can be up to 18" in length, and they will be built using the following parts: Extruded Aluminum Frames, REV Expansion Hub Robot Controllers, Cell Phone, and REV motors with encoders. This Boot Camp program is designed to provide a comprehensive overview so students will have a working knowledge of each aspect of the FTC Robotics program. This will give them a big head start if they’re interested in joining an FTC team or similar robotics program at their school during the school year, because they'll be able to step in and take on any of the roles on a robotics team with confidence. This cost for this camp is $250 with an additional Materials Fee of $60, for a total of $310 per student. This camp has a maximum of 15 students, so sign up for one of the camp sessions now at www.grauerschool.com/summer to reserve your spot! FTC Robot Construction Boot Camp Sessions:
Camp Instructor Bio: Liam Murphy worked for many years as a computer consultant and owner of Netsapien Computing. He has served as a mentor, lead mentor, judge, inspector, and referee for FRC and FTC teams and events for over 10 years. Liam currently teaches Computer Science and Engineering Design, and is lead mentor for the Shockwave FTC team at The Grauer School. Congratulations to the entire region on another amazing season! Here are the awardees for this years tournaments!
Inspire Award 1st Place - The Clueless (Advances) 2nd Place - Rise of Hephaestus (Advances) 3rd Place - Inspiration Winning Alliance Captain - The Clueless (Already advanced above) 1st Pick - Crescendo (Advances) 2nd Pick - Inspiration Finalist Alliance Captain - Rise of Hephaestus 1st Pick - Garage Bots 2nd Pick - Green.Griffins; Think Award - Level Up Connect Award - Zorrobots Collins Aerospace - Crescendo Design Award - Green.Griffins; Motivate Award - Lost CTRL Control Award - Fast and Curious Promote Award - Retro Compass Award - Doug (Buffalo Wings) Judges Award - San Clemente High Try{Tons} Judges Award - Scorpio Congratulations on completing your state's/country's FTC Rover Ruckus season! Now that the season has ended for the majority of your FTC students, it is a great time to keep them engaged with the program by giving them a chance to compete with teams from all around the world at the Maryland Tech Invitational 2019. Winning MTI teams will receive cash grants to offset the costs of their 2019-2020 FTC season. We are excited to offer an enrichment program the Friday before the competition, the TechAction STEM Exposition. This free program will focus on cutting edge missions at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Space Sector. Students and their mentors will hear first hand from the scientists and engineers who work on these inspiring projects. Also in the works - an intern recruitment program for rising college freshmen. We hope kick this off in 2019 for internships in the summer of 2020. The MTI has already been directly responsible for students landing coveted tech internships here in Maryland. We plan to make this process more formal. We are still working out the details so can't make any formal announcements at this time. Please share the attached notice about the Maryland Tech Invitational 2019 with your teams. Applications will be accepted through March 23rd. Thank you for your support! Amber Driesman Founding Director
Team 5135 Uncopyrightable have created a San Diego FTC discord server and they are inviting all teams to join! The San Diego FTC discord server is a place for teams in San Diego to communicate and cooperate about anything related to robotics. Anyone is welcome to ask for help or help others who may have questions about programming, CAD, fabrication, engineering notebook, outreach, etc.
Discord is a free communication application that is similar to Skype. In Discord anyone can create a server that other users can join and use text and voice chats. You can use discord through your web browser, your mobile device, or by downloading the mac/windows/linux application: https://discordapp.com/download The server has moderators and a full rule list on the server. You must be 13 years old to use discord. To join the San Diego FTC Discord server you can click this link and follow the directions: https://discord.gg/7u4HnAy SDFTC Region, Most of you should have received a letter from Dean Kamen about FIRST's endeavor to honor the sacrifice made by teacher and astronaut Christa McAuliffe. What you may not know is that our own David Warner, FTC mentor/teacher at Roger Rowe, was one of the cadre of teachers considered for the "first teacher in space" and has been part of a team of teachers who honor Christa's memory. Please see the attached newspaper article about Mr. Warner and read/support the letter from Dean Kamen below!  From Dean Kamen:
I am excited to let you know that Representatives Fred Upton (R-MI) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI) have introduced a Congressional bill that is very important to FIRST®. House Bill H.R.500 would instruct the United States Mint to issue a commemorative coin honoring astronaut and teacher Christa McAuliffe. As part of the FIRST community, we’re inspired to advocate for wider recognition of our nation’s STEM heroes. Christa was a New Hampshire native and scheduled to become the first teacher in space before she was tragically killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. Proceeds from coin sales would go directly to FIRST teams and serve as a meaningful tribute to an American school teacher hero. Passing this bipartisan legislation will not be easy. We need at least 290 members of the House to co-sponsor H.R.500, which means we need your help. Please take a moment to contact your Representative and urge them to co-sponsor H.R.500. We’ve provided a form at the link below to make it easy. |
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