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Stop Build Day is Tuesday!
Build season is almost over! Be sure to have your robot bagged by 11:59:59 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 23. Please refer to Please check section 5 of the Administrative Manual for information on Bagging & Tagging your robot, withholding allowances, and the robot lock-up form.
If you're in an area that's predicted to receive a storm within the next few days, please remember that safety comes before robots! However, you should be working under the assumption that Stop Build Day won't be moving, regardless of how heavy the storms are or where they hit.
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Consent & Release Form Reminders
FIRST Consent & Release Form
For all official FIRST events, your team needs to either have a roster of students and mentors from STIMS & TIMS respectively or have paper copies of the 2016 Consent & Release forms for all team members that will be present at the event.
Information about registering students in STIMS can be found here. Hard copies of the Consent & Release forms can be found here.
NE FIRST Consent & Release Form
All teams competing at an NE FIRST event must fill out an NE FIRST consent and release form in addition to the FIRST consent and release form. These forms should be completed and signed by parents/authorized adults and brought with the team and turned at the beginning of the team's first district event. The form will cover the team for additional plays in New England during the season and only needs to be filled out once. The form can be found here (please disregard the year in the file name; the consent & release form itself does not have a date and is the correct one for this year).
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WPI FRC New England District Championship Scholarship 2016 & SolidWorks/WPI Scholarship 2016
In 2016, WPI and SolidWorks will offer scholarships to seniors on teams participating in any of the New England FRC District Events. To be eligible, students must:
- Be in their senior year of high school
- Be active on a FRC team competing at a 2016 NE FIRST District Event
- Have applied to WPI
- Be nominated by an adult leader on their team
Each team may nominate one student for the WPI FRC New England District Championship Scholarship and one student for the SolidWorks/WPI Scholarship. This may be the same student or two different students. Those students nominated must be capable of meeting the admission standards of WPI and must already have applied for admission to WPI. Applications, including the Nomination Form, Letter of Nomination, and Short Answer Form, must be postmarked no later than Monday, March 28, 2016.
Scholarship Information:
- WPI FRC New England District Championship
- First Place (1): $20,000 per year for up to four years (maximum $80,000) to attend WPI
- Runner-Up (2): $5,000 per year for up to four years (maximum $20,000) to attend WPI
- SolidWorks/WPIScholarship
- First Place (1): $5,000, one-time scholarship to attend WPI
The full details on both scholarship opportunities are available here. Be sure to check out the other scholarship opportunities listed on the FIRST website, as well.
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Central MA Science Festival
The Central MA Science Festival is a celebration of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math). The event will take place on Saturday, April 16 from 10am-3pm at the Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster (365 Lindell Ave, Leominster, MA 01453). At the Central MA Science Festival, attendees will enjoy a wide range of STEAM-related activities, demonstrations, exhibitions, and workshops, including beekeeping, geology, robotics, a portable planetarium, physics of archery, aviation, and more.
The Central MA Science Festival is a hands-on, multifaceted exploration of STEAM that makes science accessible, interactive and fun for people of all ages - children to adults. This FREE event is produced and organized by the Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster in collaboration with local organizations and companies and is a part of the Cambridge Science Festival. Groups interested in submitting a workshop proposal can fill out the application here.
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AAUW Tech Savvy Conference
On Saturday, February 27, the American Association of University Women's Connecticut Chapter (AAUW CT) will host its third annual Tech Savvy Conference from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Trinity College, 300 Summit St., Hartford, Conn. 06106. The daylong Tech Savvy event will welcome sixth to ninth-grade girls, their parents, guardians and teachers.
Successful women professionals will offer firsthand information on how science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields can lead to exciting careers. During the one-day program, adults will receive information on how to help girls get on a path to a college education and a career in STEM. The event will include more than a dozen hands-on workshops and presentations led by female leaders in STEM professions.
Girls, their parents/guardians and teachers may register for the event online at aauw-ct.aauw.net.
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Practice Field Elements & Useful Information
The list for practice field element sharing and useful information can be found here. Updates can be submitted through a form on the NE FIRST website and most updates since last week have been posted here.
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FIRST Stronghold Patches & 2016 Graduation Cords
While all teams will receive a FIRST Stronghold patch at every event, by popular demand, individuals can also order their own patches. More details about the patches, which are now available on the FIRST Marketplace site, can be found on the blog.
2016 FIRST Graduation Cords are now available on the FIRST Marketplace, as well. You can check them out here.
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Upcoming Important Dates
Stop Build Day
Tuesday, Feb. 23
Please check Section 5 of the Administrative Manual for information on Bagging & Tagging your robot, as well as the robot lock-up form.
Media and Technology Innovation Award Submission Due
Monday, Feb. 29, midnight
Please check the FIRST Calendar for a complete list of important dates.
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Upcoming Events
Week Zero
Saturday, Feb. 20
Merrimack High School
38 McElwain St, Merrimack, NH 03054
Suffield Shakedown
Saturday, Feb. 20
Suffield High School
1060 Sheldon St, West Suffield, CT 06093
Granite State District Event
March 4-6
Windham High School
64 London Bridge Rd, Windham, NH 03087
Waterbury District Event
March 4-6
Wilby High School
460 Bucks Hill Road, Waterbury, CT 06704
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