Housekeeping reminder: This email is sent to the lead (2) mentors listed in each team’s registration via the FIRST Dashboard. It does not go to all mentors on a team. Please share this information with your mentors and your teams as is appropriate. Thank you to everyone who is reading these emails, and sharing the information with other mentors on your teams. 😄
6 days to Duluth Events
27 days to Grand Forks Event
41 days to Minneapolis Events
This week’s update:
- Team Registration
- Event Announcements for teams
- COVID-19 Reminder
- THANK YOU REGIONAL PROGRAM SPONSORS
- Email Blast Archive
- FRC Blog and season updates
- FIRST in Upper Midwest Newsletter
Team Registration: Students and mentors must be registered and have signed the consent and release form in order to be at Regional events.
Regional Event Information for Teams: Have your read your event emails? Teams attending both Duluth Regional Events as well as the Great Northern Event in Grand Forks have already received email announcements. (Minneapolis events coming soon.) If you have not seen them yet, find the appropriate links below:
2022 Duluth Lake Superior and Northern Lights – Information for TEAMS
2022 Great Northern Regional – Information for TEAMS
Remember to review the COVID-19 Policies for your event. Every person at the event is responsible for knowing this material and following with gracious professionalism. These policies can be found in the archived email blast from 1/28/22. Please see this link on the firstuppermidwest.org website.
Please also refer to FIRST’s Event Rules, which are in effect for all official FIRST events.
Special thanks and appreciation to our Regional Program Sponsors to make our 2022 FIRST Rapid React season a success!
- Medtronic
- University of Minnesota, College of Science & Engineering
- Boston Scientific
- 3M
- Cirrus Aircraft
- Digi Key
- Freestyle Productions
- John Deere
- Marvin Windows
- City of Grand Forks
- Target
- University of North Dakota
- USBank
- Best Buy
- Dunwoody College of Technology
- Essentia Health
- Infor
- North Dakota State University
- The Toro Company
- Visit Greater Grand Forks
- Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation
- Hartel’s
- Komatsu
- Minnesota Power Foundation
- Northern Clearing
- Visit Duluth
- True North Equipment
- Emerson Solutions
- Paul & Ruth Bauhahn Charitable Fund
- Saturn Systems
- Newcon Co.
- Barr Engineering
- Minnesota Power Employees Credit Union
- North Shore Bank of Commerce
- Marsh & McLennan Agency, LLC
- TKDA
- Bell Bank
- St Luke’s
- Scheels
Email Blast Archive: These email blasts are archived! Please see this link on the firstuppermidwest.org website.
FRC Blog and Season Updates
Season-critical information is released via the FIRST Blog! Please subscribe and bookmark this page.
FIRST in Upper Midwest Newsletter
Updates for FRC teams in our region from FIRST Upper Midwest, covering off-season events, activities, and outreach opportunities. This is a separate, opt-in, weekly mailing from FUM. Sign up at FUM FIRST Robotics Competition Updates.
Nicole Schossow
Regional Director, MN, ND, SD
Pronunciation and Pronouns: she, her, hers
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
Based in Winona, Minnesota
Main Office: 200 Bedford Street | Manchester, NH 03101
Phone: 603.666.3906 x 780 | nschossow@firstinspires.org