AndyMark FIRST Choice Tease

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AndyMark sent out an email today with the subject "FIRST Choice Tease"

Greetings!

Things are VERY busy here at AndyMark this fall. Staff has traveled to several off-season events in recent weeks - Panther Prowl, SCRIW, CAGE, Houston Robot Remix and are on their way to Cow Town ThrowDown this weekend. We are also receiving parts almost daily for FIRST Choice, so our warehouse seems to be shrinking. We thought we would use this e-mail blast to talk about the growth we are seeing.

FIRST Robotics is growing! The registration for teams is progressing very well. According to FRC team 358 mentor, WFFA winner and stat tracking guru Mark McLeod, here are FRC team registration numbers as of noon today:
2298 Registered FRC teams, compared to 1943 on this date last year
This is a 18.3% growth rate.
FIRST hopes to get as many as 2800 teams for the 2013 season. Here is a snapshot of the number of registered events for FRC teams:
Teams attending 3 Events: 1%
Teams attending 2 Events: 29%
Teams attending 1 Event: 70%
Key dates are coming up soon for FRC teams. FIRST Choice parts will be available to be viewed on the AndyMark site beginning Nov. 12th. Then, teams will be able to order their FIRST Choice parts BEFORE kickoff this year, on Dec. 10th. There were 689 teams who chose an AndyMark PDV instead of the Kit Drive System, and those teams will be able to start using their $450 PDV for AndyMark parts also on Dec. 10th. Check out FIRST's official Blog announcement here.



Look for new products to be released at AndyMark.com in the coming weeks.

Any ideas on what is under those blue tarps or in the boxes?