Team Leaders, a couple of notes:

MSHSL

The MSHSL has been reviewing costs vs revenue for running their organization and State Championship events.  As part of that process, there will be a discussion at the MSHSL Board meeting this Thursday to consider ticketing and/or registration fees for all championship events.  To help defer some of our event costs, the FIRST Robotics State Championship is under consideration for a registration fee for qualifying teams.  For those of you who were around for the 2nd year of the Championship, you may remember that spectator tickets were sold.  Everyone involved agreed that it didn’t work well given the nature of our competition and the attendees.  I will let you know what action the Board recommends as soon as I know more.

Regional Competition Volunteers

Welcome back to a new year, a new game, and another chance to volunteer with us! FIRST Volunteer Registration is open, and we’re looking to fill spots at all of our events for this upcoming season. In particular, we are looking for individuals interested in taking on the roles of robot inspector (https://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/frc/robot-inspector ), inspection manager (https://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/frc/inspection-manager ), and safety manager (https://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/frc/safety-manager ). We encourage you to sign up to volunteer no matter where your travels take you. Questions, concerns, comments – you can reach any of the volunteer coordinators via the volunteer section of your dashboard on the firstinspires.org site.

Feb 27-29 – Great Northern Regional (Grand Forks, ND)
Mar 5-7 – Northern Lights Regional (Duluth, MN)
Mar 5-7 – Lake Superior Regional (Duluth, MN)
Mar 26-28 – North Star Regional (Minneapolis, MN)
Mar 26-28 – 10,000 Lakes Regional (Minneapolis, MN)

Thank you from your Volunteer Coordinators!
•       Kristina Dignan, Great Northern
•       Karol Lundquist, Northern Lights
•       Lori Frisk, Lake Superior
•       Candace Logeais, North Star
•       Michelle Maas, 10,000 Lakes
•       Laurie Shimizu (lshimizu@firstinspires.org ), Chief Volunteer Coordinator

Regards, Mark Lawrence
Chairman, MN FIRST Regional Planning Committee