Team Spotlight

[guniv]

Just noticed on my FIRST Dashboard (I'm our primary contact) - FIRST has a new page they call "Spotlight" - "Tell us more about yourself and your team. All fields are optional."

There's a field for your robot name and uploading a robot picture. You also get 255 characters each for each of these fields:

• Team strengths
• Most significant challenge overcome
• Robot and game strategy
• Briefly describe your team history
• Team effort promoting FIRST
• Team effort promoting STEM education
• Team's community involvement
• Team sustainability and fundraising effort

There's also a printable version of the page, and a drop down menu for "Team Award History" that's just blank for us.

My thinking is that this page is meant to be a unified solution for the questions we get asked at events - I know sometimes they ask us to fill out an info sheet about the team.

FIRST has also added a "Payment History" page. I can't tell if this is for me or the team, as it seems to be grouped with my personal information. Maybe a response to a recent thread regarding confusion with their FIRST account.

[Mark McLeod]

Spotlight is the same information that was requested in the old TIMS as Team Essays.
The robot picture used to be under Team Info in the old TIMS.