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1. Express Enrollment Launch
2. Tech Tip of the Week
3. FIRST^® Tech Challenge Game Q&A Forum is Open!

Introducing Express Enrollment Youth Registration (U.S. & Canada teams) 

Lead mentors and coaches, we invite you to take advantage of our new youth registration process as you work on adding youth participants to your team roster in the FIRST^® Dashboard! 

This mobile and web friendly process allows you to generate web links or QR codes in the FIRST Dashboard for easy sharing with parents and guardians of your youth. Parents and guardians use the link to access Express Enrollment and register their youth for FIRST^® as well as apply to join your team roster in just a couple of minutes following a few simple steps. Learn more about Express Enrollment and how to get started with youth registration on the Youth Registration System Walkthrough page. 

To access the team roster and Express Enrollment application, two team lead coaches/mentors need to have completed and passed the FIRST Youth Protection Screening. 

Please note that some regions may have additional steps to complete youth registration.  If this is the case, your local Delivery Organization will contact you with further instructions. 

Tech Tip of the Week

This week’s Tech Tip of the Week is a video full of tech tips from AJ Foster, FIRST^® Tech Challenge World Championship FIRST Technical Advisor and Orlando Robotics League All-Star Volunteer. AJ gives a great synopsis of many of the key technical updates for the CENTERSTAGE^SM presented by RTX season and some background on those changes. Watch his video on the FIRST^® Tech Challenge YouTube Channel.

FIRST Tech Challenge Game Q&A Forum is Open!

The FIRST Tech Challenge Game Q&A Forum opened on Monday, September 18, at 12:00 p.m. ET. The forum allows teams to ask questions about gameplay, competition rules, judging rules, robot build rules, field setup and team provided element construction. Please see our instructions on accessing the official game Q&A form. Also, please read both Game Manual Part 1 and 2 prior to posting questions to the forum. Also check out our blog post with more information on our available forums!