Team Blast - 05/08/12

FTC Team E-Blast!

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Contents:

  1. Registration Opens May 9th!
  2. FTC Registration Kit
  3. LabVIEW Distribution
  4. ROBOTC Availability
  5. 2012-2013 Pricing for TETRIX
  6. Leadership training opportunity for Mentors and Coaches
  7. “One, Two, Five.” “Three, sir, Three!”...3words@usfirst.org

Registration for the 2012-2013 FTC season opens Wednesday, May 9, at 12 PM EST.  

Log-in to TIMS and get an early start on your season.

The Registration Kit:  FTC is now providing a registration kit to each registered and paid FTC Team.  The FTC Registration Kit will contain a Rockwell Collins Engineering Notebook, PTC Software Downloads, a LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS license, important season information and a resource DVD with helpful tips and tools for your season.

Please allow about two weeks after registration payment for this kit to arrive.

Questions?  E-mail ftcteams@usfirst.org

Boxes

NI

National Instruments has once again generously donated LabVIEW for LEGO Mindstorms to every FTC Team.  

This donation has previously shipped with the TETRIX components.  This year, the software is included in the FTC Registration Kit that will ship from FIRST.  
ROBOTC is available for purchase at www.robotc.net

ROBOTC
TETRIX Bot

TETRIX pricing set
U.S. Air Force leadership training at Cape Canaveral or the Air Force Academy, travel/lodging expenses included - Are you an FTC Mentor or Coach?  You can apply for an expense-paid trip to a U.S. Air Force sponsored Leadership Training Program!  The deadline is May 18, 2012.  Visit the program webpage for more details.
 USAF Logo

"Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. 
Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. 
Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. 
Five is right out." 

-Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 Have a suggestion for improving FTC?  Boil it down to three words, put them in the subject line of an e-mail and send it to 3words@usfirst.org.