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Assuming these dates hold up I see a lot of negotiating with our building administration over field trip dates, especially considering Champs is the week before AP exams if we qualify.

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I have seen the discussion about AP exams and whether the FIRST Championship affects the students' preparation. I believe that if the student knows the material from studying throughout the year he or she should be able to do fine on the tests. You should read this thread. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...champions hip

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Regionals ~ New regionals are in bold, please tell me if I missed any

Week 1 Feb 28th - March 3rd:
Central Valley Regional - as per R.C.
Palmetto Regional - as per Myrtle Beach Convention Center calendar
Finger Lakes Regional - as per RIT schedule
BAE Granite State Regional - as per housing website

Week 2 March 7th - March 10th:
Autodesk Oregon Regional - as per Dale from 1540
Northern Lights Regional (Duluth Entertainment Convention Center) - as per FIRST schedule
WPI Regional - as per WPI spring break
Orlando - as per UCF spring break
Lone Star - as per housing website
New York - as per housing website
Portland - as per Madison

Week 3 March 14th - March 17th:
Virginia Regional - as per venue calendar
Boilermaker Regional - as per venue calendar
Peachtree - Confirmed by GeorgiaFirst
Duluth Regionals - as per this
North Carolina - as per this
St. Louis - as per housing website

Week 4 March 21st - March 24th:
Wisconsin Regional - as per venue calendar
Bayou Regional - as per venue calendar
Los Angeles - as per this
Queen City - as per housing website
Phoenix Regional (Chandler, AZ) - as per housing website
Utah - as per housing website
Waterloo - as per housing website
Central Washington - as per Madison

Week 5 March 28th - March 31st:
Washington D.C. Regional - as per convention center calendar
Alamo Regional - as per venue calendar
Smokey Mountains Regional - as per venue calendar
Buckeye - as per housing website
Greater Toronto West Regional - as per housing website
South Florida - as per housing website
Seattle Century Link - as per Madison

Week 6 April 4th - April 7th:
SBPLI - as per Mark Mcleod
Las Vegas Regional - as per Joe from 987
Hawaii - as per First in Hawaii email
Western Canada - as per regional director
Colorado - as per housing website
Pine Tree Regional (Lewiston, ME) - as per housing website

Spokane - as per Madison
Week 7 April 10th - April 13th:
Cheaspeake as per housing website



Michigan Events
Confirmed here

Week 1-Kettering District
Week 1-Traverse City District
Week 2-Gull Lake District
Week 2-Waterford District
Week 3-Detroit District
Week 3-St. Joseph District
Week 4-West Michigan District
Week 4-Grand Blanc District
Week 5-Livonia District
Week 5-Troy District
Week 7-Michigan State Championship

MAR Events

From here

Week 1: Fri - Sun 3/1 - 3/3 -- Hatsboro-Horsham (Horsham, PA) (finalized)
Week 2: no event scheduled-- HSPA testing in New Jersey
Week 3: Thr - Sat 3/14 - 3/16-- Springside/Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, PA) (finalized)
Week 3: Thr - Sat 3/14 - 3/16 -- The College of New Jersey (Ewing Township, NJ) (tentative)
Week 4: Fri - Sun 3/22 - 3/24 -- Mt. Olive (Flanders, NJ) (finalized)
Week 4: Fri - Sun 3/22 - 3/24 -- Lenape-Seneca (Tabernacle, NJ) (finalized)
Week 5: no event scheduled-- Holiday Week (Easter and Passover)
Week 6: Fri - Sun 4/5 - 4/7 -- A High School in Central New Jersey (Middlesex or Somerset Counties) (tentative)
Week 7: Thr - Sat 4/11 - 4/13 -- Mid-Atlantic Robotics Region Championship, Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA) (finalized)

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Also, the Arizona Regional must have been renamed the phoenix regional. I believe they did this because Arizona FIRST was hoping to host a regional in Tucson this year, but it didn't go through. You can remove the Arizona regional from the list.

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This is not consistent with what I have heard.

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Is it just me, or did they take the regional list on firstchampionshiphousing.com down?

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It's down....

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Not just you. They let you see the page & select FRC but then.....
Good thing we got the list up here before it went away.

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Can someone clarify the MN regionals?
Is there a new one during week 2 in addition to the 2 already planned tentatively for week 3?
Or did one of the previous MN ones become replaced with the Northern Lights one?

Since we cannot go to the Alberta one during week 6 (Hawaii regional) , it looks as though week 2 and 3 in the same city would both be cost effective and a great place for snow activities for our students.:rolleyes:

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I really hope the official calendar comes out a little sooner than the week of registration. :ahh: getting agreements from the school administration on when the students can be out, aligning a regional with our spring break, and coordinating mentor schedules is a big deal, and the sooner we know, the better.

Thanks, everyone for providing information on when a lot of the regionals are. Now I only have 10ish permutations to work through, rather than 100s.

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There will be four regionals in MN this year. 10,000 lakes, North Star, The Northern Lights Regional and Lake Superior regional. In previous years North Star and 10,000 lakes have been during week 5. It doesn't make sense that Lake Superior and Northern Lights would be in different weeks though. It doesn't sound right because I'm pretty sure the whole reason they were adding the Northern Lights regional was they wanted to have two regionals at the same time in Duluth.

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The last time I talked to the volunteer coordinator, I was told that it was going to be a double regional. I haven't heard of this changing in the last few months since I last talked to her.

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I imagine that the housing calendar got pulled as soon as FIRST HQ realized (from this thread) that it was inadvertently put up. That's happened before, too.

Last year they didn't get all the contracts squared away and the dates officially blessed and published until two days before Registration opened.
Even then San Diego threw them for a loop at the end of October after teams had already registered and had to change venues, as well as weekends.

In most years FIRST always tries to get the dates published by mid-September. It's just that the contract signing rarely goes as expected and gets delayed or the dates move or the venue has to move.

FIRST has started publishing the Local Kickoff venues and info.

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I am not sure if you have this in this thread yet.

Seattle is going from a double regional to a single regional. :(

There is a new "Central Washington Regional," though I am not sure where it is located.

•Portland March 6-9 (64 teams) (week 2)
•Central Washington (52 teams) March 20-23 (week 4)
•Seattle Century Link (64 teams) March 27-30 (week 5)
•Spokane April 3-6 (52 teams) (week 6)

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when is the pittsburgh regional?