Team Leaders, welcome back to the 2019/2020 school year.  As a reminder, these emails only go out to Main and Alternate team contacts.  Please make sure the information gets passed on to team members and mentors.  Until team registration is complete, I’ll be using last year’s TIMS mailing list.

The FRC calendar has already started (https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/calendar ).  Team registration is currently open and soon first event registration opens (September 19th) followed closely by second event registration (October 10th).

Yoji Shimizu, FIRST Upper Midwest Board member and Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee is looking for committee members.  Info on the opportunity and an application form can be found on this web page (https://firstuppermidwest.org/first-in-upper-midwest/diversity-and-inclusion/ ).

Our Events Need You!

Volunteers Wanted!! Team leaders, please encourage your mentors and team parents to give volunteering a try at one of our upcoming off-season events. All  of the off-season events — EMCC (Sept. 21), MRI (Oct. 12), NMNRC (Oct. 26) and MMR (Nov. 23) —  need a full complement of volunteers to make these successful for our attending teams! Please contact Laurie Shimizu, lshimizu@firstinspires.org, to volunteer!

Regards, Mark Lawrence
Chairman, MN FIRST Regional Planning Committee