**FIRST EMAIL**/Initial Regional Event Payment Deadline, Kickoff, and NASA Grant Reci

[Pat Fairbank]

Greetings Teams:

Payment Deadline:

Please remember that initial regional event payments are due at FIRST this Friday, December 9th.

You can:

* Mail check to: Finance Department, 200 Bedford Street, Manchester, NH 03101 (if you have access to a fax machine please also fax a copy to 603-647-5772 so we know it is on the way!)
* Pay on-line (via TIMS) with Visa, MC or Amex, or call Finance with credit card information at number below

Please note this also means that all purchase orders for the $6,000 registration fee must be paid on or before December 9th.

If you are not able to have payment in please contact Finance at 800-871-8326 ext. 414 or 415 to discuss.

Kickoff Information:

All Kickoff Information, Manchester and local, is posted on our website at http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2006/kfevents.htm

Please don't forget that all persons attending a Kickoff event will be required to complete a "Consent, Release, Hold Harmless and Authorization to Reproduce Physical Likeness" form. Full details are found at the above link.

NASA Grant Recipients

NASA and FIRST are pleased to announce the 2006 NASA Grant recipients. Please go to http://robotics.nasa.gov/home/events...ponsorship.php to view the list of teams.

FIRST wants to thank NASA for their long standing sponsorship of the FIRST program and FIRST teams. Thank you NASA!

Go Teams!