**FIRST EMAIL**/FIRST Scholarship News/Payments for Additional Regionals & Championsh

[Mark McLeod]

**FIRST EMAIL**/FIRST Scholarship News/Payments for Additional Regionals & Championship Deadline/FRC Kickoff Workshop Recordings/Consent & Release Forms



Greetings Teams:

FIRST Scholarship News – January Update: Find out about two new FIRST Scholarship opportunities for 2012 and about LOTS of scholarships whose deadline dates are fast approaching! Also read messages from some of our FIRST Scholarship Providers. See: http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default...%201-17-12.pdf .

Payments for Additional Regional Events & Championship Deadline: Payments for Additional Regional Events and the Championship are due Friday, 1/27/2012 – please confirm with FIRST Finance that you have the funding for the events that you are registered for if they are not paid at this time. If you do not have the funding, please email ar@usfirst.org as to your status. We do have a waitlist of teams wanting to go to the Championship, so if you do not have the funding to attend please let us know so that we can give another team the opportunity.

Recordings of FRC Kickoff Workshops: Please visit: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...ckoffworkshops.

Consent and Release Forms: If you haven’t done so already, please review which 2012 FIRST Consent and Release form your team members will be submitting this season. Remember, Consent and Release forms "cover" individuals at all 2012 FIRST competition events (students and their parents can access the electronic Consent and Release form in STIMS; adult mentors in TIMS).

If anyone on your team opts to submit a hard-copy Consent and Release form instead, please download at: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...d-consent-form and follow instructions for submission located in the "Process Overview Document".

Michigan (FiM) and MAR (Mid-Atlantic Robotics) teams will find instructions specific to their Consent and Release form submissions in the "Process Overview Document" as well.

Print your Team Roster! No matter which method you choose (electronic or hard-copy), you MUST print off your Team Roster from TIMS and bring it with you to your initial Competition event. To print the Team Roster:
1) On the Team Summary page in TIMS, scroll down to the "Student/Roster" field.
2) Click "View" next to Team Roster.
3) Click Printable Roster.
4) If you have any students/mentors who are providing hard-copy forms, please write in their names on the printed roster and attach their consent and release forms.

For more information about the 2012 Consent and Release Form, including FAQ’s and a helpful Process Overview, please visit: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...d-consent-form.

Go Teams!