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Program Updates, Deadlines, & Reminders

FIRST^® Championship details: Read this FIRST^® Robotics Competition Blog for FIRST Championship event information such as streaming, queuing, radios, and more!

Addressing Field and Robot Damage: This year, a combination of field design, game design, and robot rules has led to a notable increase in damage to both the field and robots due to what would have historically been considered normal and expected game play. Read this FIRST Robotics Competition blog post for ways that we all can reduce or eliminate damage to the field and robots moving forward.

Robot Shipping & District Teams: If you are a District team and you qualify to FIRST Championship from your District Championship, you may receive a paper packet at the end of your District Championship event that will include a FedEx shipping document and instructions. If you are shipping your robot we ask you to please email frclogistics@firstinspires.org to provide us your team number and the tracking number assigned to the shipping document you received with your paper shipping packet. If your team chooses to hand-carry, look for an email from frclogistics@firstinspires.org once you secure for the event to let us know your team is hand carrying.

FIRST Updates

FIRST Championship Conferences: Attending the 2024 FIRST Championship? Join us for FREE conferences April 17-19 on a wide variety of topics such as program specific resources, workforce development, school and education implementation, FIRST sponsor content and more! Download the 2024 FIRST^® Championship App to see the full conference schedule. 

Community Engagement 

FIRST Championship Student Ambassador Program: Are you a FIRST^® participant attending the 2024 FIRST Championship? As part of the FIRST Championship, we ask FIRST participants to assist us by becoming a Student Ambassador in providing fun and exciting tours to our generous sponsors and other special guests. We know our students are our best tour guides, and our guests would love to meet you! The Student Ambassador time commitment is one two-hour tour shift plus training. 

Please sign up to become a FIRST Championship Student Ambassador on your FIRST Dashboard; choose FIRST Championship and the Student Ambassador role. If you have any questions, please contact studentambassador@firstinspires.org.

Thank you, Volunteers! We want to give a BIG thank you to each volunteer who gives their time and energy to FIRST students as mentors, coaches, or event volunteers. In honor of Global Volunteer Month in April, we are celebrating all the important work our volunteers do within our communities, schools, and organizations.

✅Enter our Volunteer Month Raffle: All volunteers are eligible to win free FIRST swag. One entry per person, raffle is open now until the end of April. Submit for your chance to win!

✅Share why you volunteer: This month we’ll be sharing stories on our blog and social media about volunteers within the FIRST community. Share with us on your social platforms why you volunteer with FIRST and the impact you’ve seen in your students with #FIRSTvolunteers. Your post might just get boosted by FIRST!