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nterviewees -
Gus Peters - Alumni Team 2337
Lillian Eckman - Alumni Teams 70 and 2337

Off season events and fundraising time! Listen to how these teams are spending their offseason educating and raising money for their teams! Time to apply for funding for Rookie FRC teams here:

The Rookie Grant is now LIVE! and the website has been updated:https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/grants.
 
Please share the information below with your teams. 
 
Awarded teams will receive $6,000 in registration grants over the period of two seasons:
• $4,000 in season 1 
​plus
• $2,000 in season 2. 
 
Teams must meet the following criteria to be eligible:
• Teams must be from a country that has an existing official FIRST® Robotics Competition event.
• Teams should have at least one committed Mentor.
• The application must include a copy of team fundraising plan.
 
Apply now! The grant application deadline is Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 11:59 PM EST. Teams will be notified about whether they are awarded the grant on Friday, November 10. 
 
For more information and to complete an application, please visit https://usfirst.submittable.com/submit/90141/2018-first-robotics-competition-rookie-grant-application”
 
Here’s a short summary of the time line:
 
·        Now Live, Friday, August 18th
·        Closes: Thursday, November 2nd
·        List to RDs: By noon on Monday, November 6th
·        Feedback due from RDs: By noon on Wednesday, November 8th
·        Teams notified of whether they receive the grant: Friday, November 10th

Off season events and fundraising time! Listen to how these teams are spending their offseason educating and raising money for their teams! Time to apply for funding for Rookie FRC teams here:

The Rookie Grant is now LIVE! and the website has been updated:https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/grants.
 
Please share the information below with your teams. 
 
Awarded teams will receive $6,000 in registration grants over the period of two seasons:
• $4,000 in season 1 
​plus
• $2,000 in season 2. 
 
Teams must meet the following criteria to be eligible:
• Teams must be from a country that has an existing official FIRST® Robotics Competition event.
• Teams should have at least one committed Mentor.
• The application must include a copy of team fundraising plan.
 
Apply now! The grant application deadline is Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 11:59 PM EST. Teams will be notified about whether they are awarded the grant on Friday, November 10. 
 
For more information and to complete an application, please visit https://usfirst.submittable.com/submit/90141/2018-first-robotics-competition-rookie-grant-application”
 
Here’s a short summary of the time line:
 
·        Now Live, Friday, August 18th
·        Closes: Thursday, November 2nd
·        List to RDs: By noon on Monday, November 6th
·        Feedback due from RDs: By noon on Wednesday, November 8th
·        Teams notified of whether they receive the grant: Friday, November 10th

Frogs, Titans, Warriors and Airtime Interviewees:
Steve Angus – Lead Coach - FTC Novi Robotitans Team 11129
Ellyse Angus – Student event led - Novi Frog Force Team 503
Iris Denny – Event Student Lead – Livonia Warriors Team 2832
Aaron Jacobs – Director of Sales Marketing, Airtime Trampoline
Events coming up:
• Tue, Sept 19th – Back to school - FRC party for Novi Frog Force #503. Novi Airtime. Location open 3-9pm. Robotic teams onsite 5-9pm.
• Tue, Sept19th – Back to school - FRC party for Livonia
○ Warriors#2832. Westland Airtime. Location open 3-9pm. Robotic teams onsite 5-9pm
Team Links:
Novi Robotitans#11129:
Facebook  groups-843910505785127
Twitter  Novi_Robotitan

Novi Frog Force#503
Facebook   FrogForce503
Website  www.frogforce503.com

Livonia Warriors Team 2832
Facebook @livoniawarriors
Instagram @warriors2832
Twitter @LivoniaWarriors
YouTube @Livonia Warriors 2832

Off season events and fundraising time! Listen to how these teams are spending their offseason educating and raising money for their teams!

Lightning Interviewees:
Sarah Fugate
Lili Calderon-Moscrip

Frogs, Titans, Warriors and Airtime Interviewees:
Steve Angus – Lead Coach - FTC Novi Robotitans#11129
Ellyse Angus – Student event led - Novi Frog Force#503
Iris Denny – Event Student Lead – Livonia Warriors#2832 • Aaron Jacobs – Director of Sales Marketing, Airtime Trampoline
Events coming up:
• August 20th - Robots in the park
• Next Tuesday Aug22nd – Summer Robotic party. FTC party for Novi RoboTitans #11129. Novi Airtime Trampoline. Location open 10-9pm. Robotic teams onsite 5-9pm.
• Tue, Sept 19th – Back to school - FRC party for Novi Frog Force #503. Novi Airtime. Location open 3-9pm. Robotic teams onsite 5-9pm.
• Tue, Sept19th – Back to school - FRC party for Livonia
○ Warriors#2832. Westland Airtime. Location open 3-9pm. Robotic teams onsite 5-9pm
Aug 22nd Event Details:
$10 of jumping per 2hrs. (that mention Robotics at door) $1 is donated to the Robotic team hosting event.
FTC field will be setup for Aug22nd event.
Official First announcer to be the MC.
Aaron from Airtime will DJ the event.
Café area reserved for Robot display & outreach.
FIRST Robotic music / DJ, Cotton Eyed Joe.
Robotics teams / Alliance teams encouraged to bring robots for display. Teams encouraged to wear team T-shirts, Steampunk outfits, and pass out team badges in the Café.
Team mascots encouraged to attend. Airtime Mascot? – Aaron?

Team Links:

Canton Lightning Team 862
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LightningRobotics
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FRC862
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lightningroboticsteam862/
Website: http://lightningrobotics.com/wordpress/

Novi Robotitans#11129:
Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/groups/843910505785127/\
Twitter  https://twitter.com/Novi_Robotitan\

Novi Frog Force#503
Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/FrogForce503/
Website  http://www.frogforce503.com/

Livonia Warriors Team 2832
Facebook @livoniawarriors
Instagram @warriors2832
Twitter @LivoniaWarriors
YouTube @Livonia Warriors 2832

Airtime Trampoline Novi:
http://airtimetrampoline.com/locations/novi-mi/
Snapchat is @airtimeparks
Instagram @airtimenovi
                 @airtimewestland
                 @airtimetroy
                 @airtimesterling
                 @airtimegrandrapids
facebook.com/airtimesterlingheights
facebook.com/airtimetrampolinetroy
facebook.com/canton/westland
facebook.com/airtimetrampolinenovi
facebook.com/airtimetrampolinegrandrapids

In this episode we present a series of Summer iNterviews that were recorded at RoboCon 2017. A variety of subjects are discussed and we hope you enjoy the episode. Please feel free to give us a review on iTunes podcasts and YouTube!

In this episode, we catch up and reflect on the SteamWorks FRC season with two of the best. Nick "Shark" Clark and Joe "The" Hurd join the podcast for this episode and provide some feedback on the past season and what FIRST Alumni can do to help FIRST and themselves while in college!

Description:
In this episode, I have the great privilege of interviewing the President of F.I.R.S.T. - Don Bossi. We had a great discussion and covered topics such as the upcoming Festival of Champions to how Don became the President of F.I.R.S.T.

In addition to the interview with Don Bossi, I had the chance to attended MiRoboCon in Lapeer in Michigan and interviewed the organizer of the event.

Twitch Coverage of Festival of Champions - www.twitch.tv/firstinspires

Interviewees:

Brandi and Clinton Bollinger - Team 2337 - The EngiNerds - Grand Blanc High School
Jim Zondag - Team 33 - The Killer Bees - Notre Dame Prep

Subjects:

Indiana Robotics Invitational competition - http://indianaroboticsinvitational.org/
Festival of Champions - FIRST Inspires - https://www.firstinspires.org/
RoboCon 2017 - http://www.mirobocon.com/
Maker Fair - https://www.thehenryford.org/current-events/calendar/maker-faire-detroit/

Major Announcement: FIRST Inspires FTC Manual UPDATE: https://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/ftc/game-and-season-info

Announcements: IRI - Indiana Robotics Invitational - Coming this WEEKEND!
• Link: http://indianaroboticsinvitational.org/

Interviewee: Chris Sommers - Bedford Robotics FTC Teams - Head mentor for Team 5237 "The Loose Screws" Link: http://bedfordftcrobotics.weebly.com

Topics:
1. Bedford Team's History with FTC
2. Differences between FTC and FRC
3. Past games 2015-2016 and 2016-2017
○ 2016–2017: Velocity Vortex
○ 2015–2016: FIRST RES-Q
4. Looking to Relic Recovery
○ 2017–2018: Relic Recovery - https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/ftc/game-and-season
5. Theorize about Relic Recovery

We hope all of you have a safe and very Happy 4th of July! We will return to our normal programming on July 11th. Dont forget to put RoboCon your calendar for July 22nd.

RoboCon: https://www.facebook.com/MiRoboCon/