Hi , 

Here's some updates and news from FIRST^® Tech Challenge.

In this week's blast: 

✅ Register Youth Team Members

🌊 Walk Like Woodie Day

🐙 Team Webinar Schedule

🤖 Starter Bots for Teams

🐠 FIRST^® Tech Challenge AI Innovation Corner

Register Youth Team Members 
The parent or guardian of every youth team member is required to complete the FIRST^® youth registration process for their participant before they may participate in any organized team activities. This electronic process must be completed prior to the student attending any team meetings or any FIRST events or competitions. For more information and instructions on how to complete the online youth team member registration process, visit the Youth Registration System Overview.  

Express Enrollment: Coaches and mentors in the United States and Canada with completed FIRST Youth Protection Screenings can take advantage of Express Enrollment, which provides a simplified experience on mobile and desktop to register and accept youth to FIRST teams.  

✅ View Express Enrollment Coach/Mentor Instructions  

✅ Express Enrollment Parent/Guardian Instructions.  

Have questions? Check out our FAQ or contact FIRST Support. 

Walk Like Woodie Day 
As the fifth anniversary of Dr. Woodie Flowers’ passing approaches, we invite the entire FIRST community to celebrate and honor his life by participating in Walk Like Woodie Day. Together, we continue to carry his legacy forward by remembering and celebrating his impact. Join us on October 11 by sharing your photos, thoughts, and tributes with #WalkLikeWoodie. Share your examples of Gracious Professionalism^® with #thatsGP and one of the photo frames!

Download the frames. 

Team Webinar Schedule 
We are thrilled to announce our team webinar series. Don’t miss the chance to explore new depths—register today, and mark your calendars for these team-centered webinars!

Check out the schedule and topics. 

Starter Bots for Teams 
We are excited to share that our vendors have been hard at work and are ready to present starter robot concepts able to play INTO THE DEEP^SM presented by RTX at a basic level using the components from their starter kits!

We invite teams to visit the Robot Building Resources which lists the available starter bot designs under the “Build Guides” heading. 

We want to stress that these are not meant to be highly competitive concepts, but rather designs that are easy to start working with using your starter kits and minimal additional resources. We encourage teams to enhance, improve and iterate on these designs to make your competition robot awesome! 

FIRST Tech Challenge AI Innovation Corner
FIRST Tech Challenge, in partnership with Google.org, is starting an "AI Innovation Corner" series highlighting the use of AI within FIRST Tech Challenge. One to two times per month articles will be posted highlighting ways teams can benefit from using AI – all with a FIRST Tech Challenge focus.

The first articles have already been posted, check out how to build an AI-powered Competition Manual "expert" in the AI Innovation Corner section at ftc-docs!