The Season Calendar page should be updated soon with this year's dates, but you can use last year's dates as a reasonable timeline:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...nt.aspx?id=454 Regional dates and locations cannot be announced until FIRST has signed all the contracts with all of the venues, but it should be announced by the end of September I expect.
You should contact your Regional Director if you haven't already done so. She may be of some help to you as a rookie team.