Hello Teams and Volunteers,
Welcome to Pennsylvania FIRST Robotics seventh email blast of the 2024-2025 Season! Previous emails can be found on our website in the COMMUNICATION Archives.
https://www.ftcpenn.org/communications
Thank you for joining our Live Kick-off events, whether you joined virtually through our GoTo meeting or attended one of the 5 live events across the state. We are very excited about this season’s challenge…Into the Deep! We hope the presentation was informative and worthwhile. Please provide feedback to ftc@pennfirst.org no matter your feedback and/or opinion or suggestion.
Our ppt presentation named “2024 Pennsylvania FTC Season Kickoff slides” is now posted on each of the Kickoff event landing pages, The GoTo Meeting video presentation will be available tomorrow morning as well.
Coaches Calls:
As a reminder, we will be holding Coaches Calls on two consecutive Wednesday’s Sep 11th and 18th, 2024. Registration not required. We may also carry on with monthly Coaches Calls throughout the season as well.
Sep 11th, 2024, 7:00 pm – https://www.ftcpenn.org/ftc-events/2024-2025-season/coaches-call-1
Sep 18th, 2024, 7:00 pm – https://www.ftcpenn.org/ftc-events/2024-2025-season/coaches-call-2
If popular, we will provide two calls per month going forward as well. Please provide your feedback and requests.
Forthcoming Grant Applications:
Some of you have asked: Applications for the two PA FIRST Robotics administered Grants announced and detailed in our Email Blast #4 dated Aug 12, 2024 will open next week, following this weekend’s kickoff. The grant opportunities are provided by the Arconic Foundation and Google.org. There will be an email sent to teams on this subject once the applications are established. Please reference the Email Blast for more information:
https://www.ftcpenn.org/email-archive/13615
Team Registration with FIRST
Please be reminded that Team REGISTRATION with FIRST opened on Wed May 15th, 2024. New this season, and for your reference, Rookie teams numbers will start at # 25609. FIRST FTC will no longer issue temporary team numbers as well. New teams will get a permanent number at registration regardless of payment status. So far, we have 65 confirmed and secured teams registered with another 10 in progress. We look forward to our usual flurry of registrations in the upcoming weeks. Please let us know if you have any questions or require assistance with the FIRST registration process.
https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/ftc
PA Events Posted
Now the exciting news! Our PA website has been updated with the upcoming schedule of EVENTS for the 2024-2025 season. This includes confirmed live kick-off (Sep 7th, 2024) scrimmage and Qualifier dates and locations. Please note that we are again planning 10 Qualifiers this season over 5 weekends in different regions of the state. We sincerely hope that this helps you plan your selected events and potential travel earlier than any past season. Regardless of this advance visibility, Qualifier Registration does not open until October 1st, 2024 to assure that we have a substantial number of teams registered with FIRST before we open up PA events.
https://www.ftcpenn.org/ftc-events/2024-2025-season
Thank you for your attention,
Sincerely,
Tom Zawislak and the FTC PA Team
Pennsylvania FIRST® Robotics
FIRST Tech Challenge® Program Delivery Partner
phone: (302) 383-9925
email: ftc@pennfirst.org
Website: www.FTCPenn.org