Freight Frenzy! Coming to you for the 2021-2022 Season!

CONGRATS ARIZONA TEAMS!

What an incredible finale we had to our FIRST Game Changers season! Congrats to all the teams that competed in the Championship, qualifiers and to all of you for making this unforgettable season amazing! Don't take those robots apart yet - we have plans in the works for an in-person event where you can play ULTIMATE GOAL on alliances! Stay tuned for more! 

GO TEAMS!!!

FREIGHT FRENZY^SM presented by Raytheon Technologies - Logos and Artwork

We hope you’re as excited as we are to commence our FREIGHT FRENZY presented by Raytheon Technologies season! You can find artwork, and logo files, and soon exciting downloadable content on our website. Don’t forget registration is open! 

SAVE THE DATE FOR KICKOFF - September 18, 2021! More details to come as we get closer to the start of the new season. 

Coming Next Week! – FIRST^® Seniors’ Week

Join us in celebrating the Class of 2021 with FIRST Seniors’ Week June 7-10 culminating in FIRST Signing Day with other graduates from all over the world. Be sure to follow FIRST on

 Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram to join in and celebrate 2021 Graduates! 

 

College Admission Webinar

Mark your calendars! College admissions experts are sharing insider knowledge about how students can make their applications shine with FIRST during a free webinar June 10 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. CollegeAdvisor.com Admissions Expert Amanda Horne (MIT ’20, FIRST alum) and FIRST^® Robotics Competition Program Specialist Fiona Hanlon will break down how students can create compelling narratives around their extracurricular experiences. Extracurriculars will only stand out to Admissions Officers if students know how to talk about them—this webinar will teach them how.

 

Collecting Team Photos and Videos

Show us what your FIRST^® Tech Challenge team has accomplished during the 2020-2021 #FIRSTGAMECHANGERS season! Share pictures and short video clips of how your team came together by June 16 for the chance to be featured in upcoming videos. Teams can submit here!

 

Save the Date – Season Celebration

We’re celebrating all that our FIRST Tech Challenge teams have accomplished this season in an online Season Celebration on June 24 at 7 p.m. Eastern Time. Save the date and join us on Twitch to celebrate all the amazing accomplishments of our teams, volunteers, and community in this ULTIMATE GOAL^SM presented by Qualcomm season.

 

Arizona Championship Results

CONGRATS ARIZONA TEAMS!

What an incredible finale we had to our FIRST Game Changers season! Congrats to all the teams that competed in the Championship, qualifiers and to all of you for making this unforgettable season amazing! Don't take those robots apart yet - we have plans in the works for an in-person event where you can play ULTIMATE GOAL on alliances! Stay tuned for more! 

GO TEAMS!!!

Arizona Championship Results

Inspire Award: 10984, Beep Patrol

Outstanding Volunteers: 

    Vicki Burow

    Susan Garduno

    Patti Strones

Dean's List Finalists:

    Khushi (18312, Da Geese of Freedom)

    Tatiana (14254, Trivium Knight Lights)

    Natali (18312, Da Geese of Freedom)

1st Ranked Team: 8995, Jaegers

2nd Ranked Team: 14853, Tie-Dye Samurai

3rd Ranked Team: 18421, Griffin Robotics

4th Ranked Team: 12901, PROJECT: COBRA

5th Ranked Team: 14584, Pioneer 327

6th Ranked Team: 13968, Herberger Howlers

Think Award: 14584, Pioneer 327

Connect Award: 12767, Catholic Master Builders

Collins Aerospace Innovate Award: 8995, Jaegers

Control Award, Sponsored by Arm, Inc: 14436, Roaring Robotics

Motivate Award: 18312, Da Geese of Freedom

Design Award: 16279, SPARK

Promote Award: 6174, Automatons

Compass Award: Coach Mark from 14584, Pioneer 327

Judge's Award: 14254, Trivium Knight Lights

You can watch the Championship ceremony, match videos, and qualifier ceremonies on the CocoNuts YouTube Channel. 

FIRST Tech Challenge Global Season Celebration

Join FIRST Tech Challenge teams from all over the world in celebrating the Ultimate Goal Season! The broadcast is June 24 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time (4:00 PM AZ Time) and will recognize Inspire Award Winners, highest ranked teams, volunteers of the year, and the FIRST Tech Challenge Dean's List winners. Tune in on FIRST Twitch.

Coaches and Mentors: Check your YPP Status!

If your Youth Protection screening was done four years ago, you may not have access to the FTC Scoring system any more! Please check your status on your FIRST dashboard and renew your screening if it's been four years since your last one. When you log into your dashboard, click on your name in the upper right hand corner, then click "My Profile." Then click Youth Protection Screening on the left. The bottom right corner of the screen will have the date that your YPP clearance expires. 

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 at https://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.  

Arizona Championship Award Ceremony!

 ARIZONA CHAMPIONSHIP AWARD CEREMONY!

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! 

Championship Award Ceremony Schedule

4:00 PM    Match Videos & Compass Award Submissions

4:40 PM    Team Spotlights - Celebrating YOU and our Game Changer Season

5:20 PM    Awards Presentation

GO TEAMS!!!

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 at https://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.  

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 at https://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!!!

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! 

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

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