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Program Updates, Deadlines, & Reminders

Closing Soon! FIRST^® Event Registration, First Preference: Round 1 of event preferencing closes in a few hours at 12:00 p.m. noon ET, October 3. For more information about event preferencing visit our Event Preference User Guide. Prior to submitting your preferences, check the location of each event as they may have changed from last season. 

Late Registration for First Events: Event Ready teams that miss the first round of event preferencing can pick their event in our late registration period that opens on Friday, October 4, at 12:00 p.m. noon ET. 

Reminder! Program Deadlines: Check the FIRST^® Robotics Competition Season Calendar frequently to stay up to date on important deadlines. 

Safety Animation Award Theme & Safety Manual Now Available! We are excited to announce the theme for the 2025 Safety Animation Award sponsored by UL Solutions: Dive into Safety! Read more in this FIRST Robotics Competition blog. 

Regrant Portal Open: The Regrant Portal opened October 1 and will remain open until October 31, 2024. For eligibility requirements and regranting windows, please visit Regranting, Process, Procedures, and W-9.   

Resource of the Week: This week we’re highlighting two resources around community engagement and outreach. Community engagement and Outreach are vital in order to promote the importance of STEM and robotics in your community:  

🤖 Outreach Plan Worksheet - A worksheet, created by The Compass Alliance, that helps teams identify and plan outreach opportunities.  

🤖 Community Engagement Worksheet - A worksheet, created by The Compass Alliance, that helps teams plan ways to engage with the community. 

FIRST Updates

2025 Inspire the Future: FIRST Recognition Program: Here at FIRST, recognition is not only part of our name but core to our ethos, and we are proud to launch nominations for the 2025 Inspire the Future: FIRST Recognition Program!  

We want to celebrate the FIRST educators and schools who impact and inspire their learning communities. Through their work, these educators and schools advance the mission of FIRST. 

Learn more about the Inspire the Future: FIRST Recognition Program and how YOU can nominate an educator or school that has made a positive impact on your community. 

Community Engagement 

Opportunity for FIRST Alumni in the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers: RTX is inviting FIRST alumni attending the SHPE conference in Anaheim, CA. to stop by our hospitality suite on October 30. Please have FIRST alumni pre-register at this link and mention that they are FIRST alumni during their interview and on their resume.  

By registering for this event, alumni may be asked to supply personal data to the event organizer, and this data will be subject to the organizer's privacy policy. Anyone registering should review the organizer's privacy policy and understand how their data will be used before participating in the event.