Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge Coaches, Three items: video awards, offseason event, and old field sets There are two 2022 video awards, the Promote Award and the Compass Award. All our teams registered at FIRST are eligible to submit for these awards even if not competing at the Championship. Winners will be announced at the Regional Read more about LA FTC Reminder: Video awards submission deadline, offseason event, and old field sets[…]

Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge Coaches, Two items: video awards, and old field sets There are two 2022 video awards, the Promote Award and the Compass Award. All our teams registered at FIRST are eligible to submit for these awards even if not competing at the Championship. Winners will be announced at the Regional Championship, but Read more about Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge: Video awards submission deadline and old field sets[…]

Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge Coaches, The results from yesterday’s Northshore Qualifier are posted on the FTC events site.  Full match results and Awards are posted there.  Thanks to all our teams for three great Qualifying events, and to our volunteers for working so hard to make these happen. Congratulations to the final eight advancing teams: Winning Read more about Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge – Q3 results[…]

Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge Coaches, The results from the Denham Springs Qualifier are finally posted at the FTC events site. Congratulations to the seven advancing teams: Inspire Award Winner 14374 Dark Matter Winning Alliance Captain 9768 Steel Eagles Winning Alliance 1st Team selected 20143 Stinger Robotics Team Swarm Finalist Alliance Captain 18380 Stinger Robotics Team Read more about Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge – Denham Springs Qualifier results[…]

Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge Coaches, 1. RCMP date We need your help to find a venue for our Regional Championship. First, because of my delay in fixing a venue and because people are making Mardi Gras school break plans, we’re pushing the date of our Regional Championship later to March 26.  This is about two Read more about Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge – RCMP help needed[…]

Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge Coaches, 1. Results from the New Orleans Qualifier are available at the FTC Events page. You can compare with events in other regions at https://ftc-events.firstinspires.org Congrats to the five Q1 teams that advanced to our Regional Championship: Inspire Award Winner 13017 Top Ranked Team 19824 Inspire Award 2nd place 9637 Top Read more about Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge – Qual 1 results – Denham Springs / Northshore Qualifiers[…]

Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge Coaches,   If you didn’t see an invoice for Quals registration this week, please let me know.   Two items here –   1) A last-minute reminder about the Dean’s List deadline Nominations for your students are due tomorrow, November 15, for interviews at the December 1 Qualifier.  Your Dean’s List Read more about FIRST Tech Challenge Louisiana – Dean’s List reminder[…]

Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge Coaches, I apologize for the delay in getting this information out.  I know it’s making for some late decisions and planning for some teams.  I appreciate everyone’s patience. The Qualifier assignments are attached in PDFs.  You will see that as expected the later events are more popular, and with the number Read more about FIRST Tech Challenge Louisiana 2018-2019 Qualifier registration[…]

Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge Coaches, Welcome to our rookie teams!  I try to keep these broadcast messages posted online in a more-or-less timely way. Topics in this message: Qualifier registration (deadline Oct 26) Qualifier tournament fees Volunteer registration Scrimmages Youth member registration at FIRST Dean’s List Award nominations Outreach! If you see I made a Read more about FIRST Tech Challenge Louisiana 2018-19 Email #2[…]

Louisiana FIRST Tech Challenge Coaches, Just a quick note – – Below is the registration for the Dark Matter Ready-or-Not Screammage on October 27 at Salmen High School in Slidell. – I expect we will have about the same capacity at our Qualifiers as last year, so we will run the event registration the same Read more about FIRST Tech Challenge Louisiana – Scrimmage Registration, Quals Reg coming[…]