A HUGE Thank You to everyone who attended at last weekend's Arizona and New Mexico Kickoffs!!!
2nd Event Registration is now Open!
Teams may now sign up for a 2nd event for the Rover Ruckus season! A few things to keep in mind:
- Please only register for one additional event if you're in one already.
- Teams that accidentally register for more than 2 events will be asked their top choices and be deleted from the additional events.
- Teams can sign up for a 3rd event starting on September 22.
- Emails will be sent to teams within a couple of days confirming your spot in a tournament.
- Invoices will be sent to teams in early October.
- Be sure to check the status of the tournament capacities on the list to the right. This is updated 2-3 times per day.
Kickoff Workshops
We can't express our gratitude enough to the teams that presented at the Arizona and New Mexico Kickoff events last weekend! Thank you to the Gear Masters, Zia Robotics, Griffin Robotics, Brain Hackers, CocoNuts, MechaHawks, Jaegers, Beep Patrol, Knights of the Lab Table, Dragons, Team Viper, Valley X, and the Juggerbots!!! Thank you also to the Arizona & New Mexico Planning Committee members and our awesome venues Arizona State University and Nex+Gen Academy!
PDFs of many of the workshops that were presented at Kickoff are available to the right for download.
Electrostatic Discharge
Tom Eng (head engineer for FIRST Tech Challenge) wrote an awesome article on ways to mitigate electrostatic discharge on your robots. Please read the article here (and posted to the right) as you plan your robot design. Special thanks to the teams that helped out with the ESD testing in August: Valley X, Dragons, Knights of the Lab Table and Beep Patrol!
Enter to Win a Game Set!
FIRST Tech Challenge is giving away Rover Ruckus game sets!! Click this link (or go to Quick Links) to learn more!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment