**FIRST EMAIL**/Critical Deadlines Approaching/Surrogate Kit Pickup Option/New Manual

FIRST EMAIL/Critical Deadlines Approaching/Surrogate Kit Pickup Option/New Manual Format

Greetings Teams:

Critical Deadlines Approaching:

  • TONIGHT, Thursday, December 1st
    @ 8 PM EST: Regional Event Registration closes; Championship Registration closes. - Tomorrow, Friday, December 2nd @ 8 PM EST
    : Kit & Kickoff Registration closes. - Tomorrow, Friday, December 2nd
    : Payment deadline for Initial Regional Event Registration; Bag & Tag Exemption Requests deadline. - Thursday, 12/08/11 @ 12 PM EST
    : Deadline to submit Safety Animation submissions (via STIMS).Surrogate Kit Pickup Option

If a team is unable to pick up its KoP at the Local Kickoff selected, an alternate, or “Surrogate” team may be designated to do so. The team unable to attend kickoff must still register for the kickoff (by the deadline on 12/2 @ 8 pm EST) and must provide FIRST with an authorized Surrogate Kit Pickup letter, signed by the main or alternate contact, on school or sponsor letterhead that follows this template: http://tinyurl.com/69jodt3.

All Surrogate Kit Pickup letters must be received at FIRST no later than 5:00 pm EST on January 3rd, 2012.

The surrogate letter should be sent or faxed to:
FIRST
attn: FRC Team Support/Operations
200 Bedford Street
Manchester, NH 03101
Fax #: 603-666-3907

Or scanned and emailed to [email protected]

New Manual Format: FRC is partnering with Enable Training and Consulting to present the 2012 game manual documentation in a new, easier to use format. You can read and access the new manual format on Bill’s Blog: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/emailblastarchive.aspx.

Go Teams!