[Anne_droid]

The website was very confusing, especially given that a different set of registration fields would come up depending on what links you clicked on in the site.

I'm an engineering mentor and the team's main contact, and the CAD mentor is also an engineer. I tried to register for the site by saying I was "Faculty" as the previous post recommended (though feeling somewhat dishonest), but it said that my email address was not a validly recognized school address.

This means that we have to bug a teacher to go through the registration and manage all the downloads for our students? This is a significant inconvenience, both to the teacher and to our team. I understand their concern for making sure the use is educational, but when it comes to serving FIRST teams, many of which are mentor-run, this is not the optimal way of handling the software distribution.

In past years, wasn't there a special invitation to the email address of the known main contact? I seem to remember that being the case.