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In this week's blast:

⚙️ Safety Animation Award Deadline – Today!
⚙️ Upcoming MySite Roll-Over Deadline
⚙️ Upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday Hours
⚙️ Express Enrollment/Express Mentor
⚙️ FIRST^® Robotics Competition Blog Updates
⚙️ Telemetry Resource 

Program Updates, Deadlines, & Reminders

Closing Soon! Safety Animation Award Sponsored by UL Solutions: Submissions for the Safety Animation Award will close today, November 20, at 3:00 p.m. ET. Read more about the theme, criteria, and submission instructions on the Safety page. 

Reminder! MySite Roll-Over Deadline: The payment due date has passed. If your team has not secured payment yet, don’t panic but please email us at customerservice@firstinspires.org so we can work with you.

After December 1 at 12:00 p.m. ET, teams that have not checked out through their dashboard will be removed from being able to pick up their Kickoff kit at a local Kickoff, will be marked as a MySite Shipment, and may incur an additional shipping cost. Teams that miss this cutoff will be notified of their MySite status via email. 

Thanksgiving Holiday Hours: FIRST Headquarters will be closing on Wednesday, November 26, at 3:00 p.m. ET in recognition of the U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday. Regular business hours will resume on Monday, December 1, at 8:30 a.m. ET. 

Express Enrollment/Express Mentor: Lead coaches in the United States and Canada with completed FIRST Youth Protection Screenings can take advantage of our express features which provides a simplified experience on mobile and desktop to register and accept youth/mentors to FIRST teams: 

🤖 Express Enrollment can be used for youth members. View Express Enrollment Lead Coach Instructions and the Express Enrollment Parent/Guardian Instructions.   

🤖 Express Mentor can be used to invite and accept mentors and youth mentors aged 13-17. Please note that this application cannot be used to invite the lead coach 1 or lead coach 2.

FIRST Robotics Competition Blog Updates:

✏️2026 Game Hint #3 

Resource of the Week: Want to know why your robot did what it did during a match? Logging is the best way of understanding what information you robot was reading in from sensors, what it was outputting to motors and more. Check out the Telemetry section of the WPILib documentation for information on how to log information yourself, use the new annotation based logging from Epilogue, or leverage other 3rd party libraries to help with logging.

Upcoming Important Dates:

⚙️ Thursday, November 20 at 3:00 p.m. ET – Safety Animation Award Closes
⚙️ Monday, December 1 at 12:00 p.m. ET – MySite Roll-Over
⚙️ Thursday, December 11 at 12:00 p.m. ET – Founder’s Reception Registration Closes