Good Afternoon Teams,
We want to know who you are. New this year, we’re asking FRC teams to complete a team roster in the Student Team Member Information System. If everything goes well, students will be able to sign their 2010 Consent and Release form electronically here starting December 3rd. Team Main Contacts will receive an email blast with details when the system is ready. Remember, anyone can see email blasts and news items as they happen here. We’re planning to add RSS to that news page and to the team update page when everyone gets back from the holidays next week. I’ll let you know when it goes live.
As of this morning we have 1746 FRC teams registered for the 2010 season competitions. Only 1264 of you have signed up to attend a local kickoff event. Remember, if you arrange to have your kit shipped directly to you, you pay the shipping. If you pick up your kit at a local kickoff, we pay the shipping (no, the FedEx donation doesn’t cover the kit of part shipments this year). If you can make it to a local kickoff, you’ll have your kit in hand sooner and at no additional expense to your team. Kit and kickoff registration ends December 4th so there’s still time to look for an event near you
And just because I appreciate your checking this blog regularly, here are a few little known facts about this year’s kickoff. We start setting up for the broadcast on Wednesday (it takes a lot of work to turn a basketball court into a soundstage). This year you will be able to see the Game Design Committee in action (we videotaped some of the meetings). And the live broadcast is scheduled to begin at 10:00AM EST.
46 days until the 2010 Kickoff
See you there!
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I thought there was supposed to be the long-awaited java announcement in this week's post. It was supposed to be out for general release in November...today is the 30th...how much longer can we be expected to wait?
I am very excited to see the online team member registration process, but I have a concern: In this day of Identity Theft issues, what mechanisms exist to allow a student (or their parents!) to remove themselves from the FIRST database? There's always unfortunately the possibility of a student wishing to drop from FIRST (or even not wishing but required, should grades suffer). Will they perpetually be registered somewhere?
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