Thursday, April 29, 2021

Good Luck Championship Teams & High Country Results

PROMOTE AND COMPASS AWARD SUBMISSIONS - FTC GLOBAL CELEBRATION

This year we’re excited to again have the opportunity to open our Promote and Compass Award submissions to all registered FIRST® Tech Challenge teams. Teams that made a Compass or Promote video in the regular season, that meets our video specifications listed in Game Manual Part 1, are encouraged to submit it to FIRST Headquarters. These videos will be reviewed by FIRST Headquarters staff and the winners will be announced at our FIRST Tech Challenge Global Season Celebration online event. If you’d like to submit a video, please have your team’s adult coach or mentor send it to us by June 10 using these instructions:  
 

How to submit your video:  

  1. Be sure to read the criteria for the Compass and Promote Awards in the Game Manual Part 1
  2. The filename for your video must follow the naming convention:
    • State Abbreviation, Team#, Award Type  
                    Example: NH_12345_Promote
  3. Upload your video to your Google Drive account. If you do not have a Google Drive account, you will need to create one athttps://www.google.com/drive/ 
  4. Once your video is uploaded to your Google Drive account, share your video with ftcteams@gmail.com 
  5. Right-click on your video file in your Google Drive account 
  6. Select “Share" 
  7. Enter ftcteams@gmail.com as the address with which to share your file
  8. Select “Done”
**Files not using the naming convention listed above will not be accepted.  
**Files not submitted via Google Drive will not be accepted.  
**Files that are not within the 60 second time limit will not be accepted.  
**Files submitted after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on June 10, 2021, will not be accepted.  
**Teams must have rights to any music used in the video and permissions must be listed in video credits. 
**All team members must be registered in their team’s roster and have signed the consent and release form before May 15.  

High Country Qualifier Results
Inspire Award: 13309, botCats
1st Ranked Team: 8995, Jaegers
2nd Ranked Team: 12901, PROJECT: Cobra
3rd Ranked Team: 14436, Roaring Robotics
4th Ranked Team: 12767, Catholic Master Builders
Think Award: 18312, Da Geese of Freedom
Connect Award: 12901, PROJECT: Cobra
Collins Aerospace Innovate Award: 8995, Jaegers
Control Award, Sponsored by Arm, Inc: 15561, Tech Cat Robotics
Motivate Award: 18625, 6174, Automatons
Design Award: 14436, Roaring Robotics
Judge's Award: 18197, Central Cybercats

GOOD LUCK ARIZONA CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS!
Congrats and good luck to the 33 Arizona Teams competing this weekend at the Arizona FIRST Tech Challenge Championship! We hope you will all join us for the Championship award ceremony on Friday, May 7 at 4:00 PM AZ time. In addition to our team spotlight videos, the Championship award ceremony will feature robot play and more awards including Compass, Promote, and Dean's List Finalists! 
GO TEAMS!!!

Friday, April 23, 2021

High Country Award Ceremony & Championship Volunteers Needed

Championship Volunteers Needed!

We still need judges for the AZ Championship! Judges will interview teams April 30 (evening) and May 1 (morning) with deliberations after. We're sending each judge a care package and a food credit with GrubHub! We ask that any volunteers not have an affiliation with any of the competing teams so that the panel can be unbiased. People that would make great judges include: 
  • Coaches and mentors of teams that are not competing
  • FIRST alumni from teams that are not competing (must be at least 19)
  • Engineers, educators, business owners, parents with no team affiliation
  • Potential schools, sponsors or community members interested in learning more about FIRST. 
  • Remember, since Championship is remote, geography is no barrier! 
  • Please have any potential volunteers register at www.firstinspires.org or contact Susan Garduno for help signing up. 

The AZ Championship Roster can be found HERE!


HIGH COUNTRY AWARD CEREMONY!

Friday, April 23 at 4:00 PM Arizona Time
Live streamed by the CocoNuts

Tune in to find out who the last teams competing at the Arizona Championship will be! GO TEAMS! 

Saturday, April 17, 2021

Turquoise Results & Good Luck High Country Teams!

GOOD LUCK TO THE TEAMS COMPETING AT THE HIGH COUNTRY QUALIFIER!


Good luck to all the teams competing starting today in the High Country Qualifier! Your tenacity and GP never cease to amaze us...we can't wait to see what you came up with. GO TEAMS! 

All Teams are invited to join us for the Award Ceremony, which will be live-streamed Friday, April 23. The link will be posted to the blog! 

Don't take those Robots apart yet....
Arizona FTC has something up our sleeve for the fall...let's just say you might not be finished competing with your Ultimate Goal bot yet! Stay tuned for more details as we have them! 

Reminders for AZ Championship Teams

  • April 18 - Swag due to Catholic Master Builders for SWAG SWAP!
  • April 30 - Championship Opening & Main Judging Interviews (evening)
  • May 1 - Follow-up Judging
  • May 1 - Championship entry fee payment due 
  • May 1 - Compass & Promote Awards due at 6:00 PM to our Google Drive
  • May 5 - Team Videos (30-90 seconds each) due at 4:00 PM to our Google Drive (will be shown at Championship Award Ceremony)
Stay tuned for a lot more detail as the Championship gets closer! Just one more set of teams left to advance! 

Turquoise Qualifier Results
Inspire Award: 12901, PROJECT: COBRA
1st Ranked Team: 14835: Tie-Dye Samurai
2nd Ranked Team: 8995, Jaegers
3rd Ranked Team: 13968, Herberger Howlers
4th Ranked Team: 8081, Knights of the Lab Table
Think Award: 15461, Tech Cat Robotics
Connect Award: 10984, Beep Patrol
Collins Aerospace Innovate Award: 3666 Hawks Robotics
Control Award, Sponsored by Arm, Inc: 14835, Tie-Dye Samurai
Motivate Award: 18625, Trivium Knightmares
Design Award: 13309, botCatz
Judge's Award: 14855, Shamrocks

Friday, April 2, 2021

Reminders for AZ Championship Teams & Turquoise Award Ceremony

Reminders for AZ Championship Teams

  • April 18 - Swag due to Catholic Master Builders for SWAG SWAP!
  • April 30 - Championship Opening & Main Judging Interviews (evening)
  • May 1 - Follow-up Judging
  • May 1 - Championship entry fee payment due 
  • May 1 - Compass & Promote Awards due at 6:00 PM to our Google Drive
  • May 5 - Team Videos (30-90 seconds each) due at 4:00 PM to our Google Drive (will be shown at Championship Award Ceremony)
Stay tuned for a lot more detail as the Championship gets closer! Just one more set of teams left to advance! 

Desert Vista Qualifier Results

Inspire Award: 10523, Dragons
1st Ranked Team: 14584, Pioneer 327
2nd Ranked Team: 10984, Beep Patrol
3rd Ranked Team: 201, BroncoBotics
4th Ranked Team: 16279 SPARK
5th Ranked Team: 14855 Shamrocks
6th Ranked Team: 10523 Dragons
Dean's List Semifinalist: Luke (Beep Patrol), Daniel (Knight Lights), Tatiana (Knight Lights), Haley (Girls in Tech)
Think Award: 17062, Girls in Tech
Connect Award: 14584, Pioneer 327
Collins Aerospace Innovate Award: 2844, Valley X
Control Award, Sponsored by Arm, Inc: 201 Broncobotics
Motivate Award: 16279, SPARK
Design Award: 10984, Beep Patrol
Judge's Award: 14254 Knight Lights

TURQUOISE AWARD CEREMONY!
Friday, April 2 at 4:00 PM Arizona Time
Live streamed by the CocoNuts