**FIRST EMAIL**/Autodesk Sponsorship Information

[Rich Wong]

Greetings Teams:

We are thrilled to announce that once again Autodesk will be sponsoring FIRST FRC teams through its generous software donations and training activities. Our many thanks go to our friends at Autodesk for their continuing commitment to the FIRST mission.

Autodesk anticipates shipment of software will start early next week. Please note that if you are a rookie team Autodesk will not ship software until the $500 FIRST Robovation deposit has been received.

Please read below for full details on what Autodesk is offering our teams this season!

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Autodesk is very excited to grant the teams something really cool this year! The Autodesk "kits" will start shipping the week of November 1, so here's what you can expect:

Autodesk Design Academy ("ADA")

ADA is a pre-engineering and pre-architecture program that includes:
Autodesk Inventor Series
Autodesk Architectural Desktop
Autodesk Revit
Autodesk VIZ
And the best part: curriculum for the teachers!
ADA includes a 25-seat classroom license for all these cool programs. That's right, 25 of you can be working on Autodesk Inventor at the same time! But that's not all: we are also including 3ds max 7, the latest version of our award-winning animation software, just released last week.

We will have an update coming soon about some fantastic training opportunities for both Autodesk Inventor and 3ds max. Stay tuned for updates!

Autodesk