2020-21 FTC Ultimate Goal Kickoff & Season Schedule Changes!
Hello NM FTC Teams!
The FTC Ultimate Goal Kickoff is this Saturday, Sept 12! The broadcast from FIRST will begin at 10AM MDT.
- Get ready, get set, GO! It’s time to redefine the game!
- Join us September 12 at 10AM MT on FIRSTv as we kickoff the #ULTIMATEGOAL presented by Qualcomm
season and check out what’s ahead for FIRST Tech Challenge teams in the FIRST GAME CHANGERS powered by @StarWars: Force for Change season.
- Hosts Deejay Knight and FIRST alum Sarah Fogwell, along with special guests, will give you a closer look at this season’s challenge reveal, answer your questions in a live Q&A, and see how teams will become #FIRSTGAMECHANGERS!
In a change from previous years, they will be following the FRC model of posting the game related materials (like Game Manual Part 2) following the game introduction videos rather than right at 10AM.
We are also looking into hosting a NM Kickoff Watch Party on Zoom – I’ll send another announcement & we will post a link here on the website if we get that setup!
By now, hopefully you have all seen the announcement made today by FIRST about the 2020-21 season schedule. To give us more flexibility in scheduling events, they have extended the entire FIRST Game Changers competition season thru June 2021 and have slipped the Houston Championship to mid-July 2021!
This is where I need your input! The main idea behind this change is to give Partners and Event Hosts the greatest possibility of hosting live in-person competitions by shifting the season as late as possible. I need to know our team’s and volunteer’s thoughts on the possibility of scheduling the NM FTC Championship for sometime in June of 2021 with Qualifying events in the Spring. What I am mainly interested in is the impact of moving events past the end of the 2020-21 School Year. Does this work, particularly for School based teams and Schools that have acted as event host sites. Please send me your comments via the “Contact Us” tab on this website by Friday Sept 18, 2020.
I look forward to seeing you all this season!
Jim Jackson, NM FTC Operational Partner, jjackson@firstpartners.org