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4-10-2020 Team Update

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We hope you are enjoying your sunshine!  You may be adjusting to a new way of doing school now that Kate Brown has closed schools for the remainder of the school year.  While our society adjusts and limits how we can interact with one another, we hope your team is still finding ways to stay well, connect with your team and communities to support them during this pandemic.   Evaluation Report   ORTOP completed an evaluation report to measure the ways FIRST impacts our youth participants.  We are committed to continuing this work into the future.  Teams are encouraged to use this tool in your work, both to prove the impact of the program and to suggest ways ORTOP can improve our approach.  Stay Connected with us!   All our lives have changed quite drastically over the past month!  As we all practice social distancing, we want to find a way to stay connected with each other. Thank you to the teams that have shared their st...
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1-6-2020

Teams I have two things for you tonight: 1.  Scrimmage 2020 is schedule for February 15th .  Registration is $125 on the ORTOP website .  Please register early so we know how many teams to plan for. 2.  Intel Oregon FIRST LEGO League Championship is in need of volunteers !  This is your opportunity to support the pipeline of robotics in Oregon. The championship will host 120 teams over two days at Liberty High School in Hillsboro.  We have a need for both student and adult volunteers.  There are many roles to be filled: judging, practice field attendant, door queuing or emcee!  If you are interested in auditioning to be an emcee at our event contact Loridee Wetzel .
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12-13-2019

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Team Invoices CAD Laptops Give! Guide Team Invoices Please double check the address on your payment.  The address printed on the team invoice is correct.  The address in the body of the email is NOT correct.  We apologize for the error. FIRST Washington 21238 68th Ave. S. Kent, WA 98032 CAD Laptops Does your team want more laptops to use for students using CAD or coding?  DW Fritz has a few they are willing to donate to the cause.  Let me know if you want one! Give! Guide There are two big incentive dates before the campaign closes!
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December 5th

Your Voice Matters Oregon is creating a new CTE State Plan and would love your input.  Please watch this introductory video and prepare to share your views on Oregon’s new CTE State Plan and share this invite with your colleagues and constituents. Career Technical Education (CTE) positively affects thousands of youth and adults each year giving them skills to apply their knowledge in ways that build Oregon’s economy and communities. Oregon is creating a new CTE State Plan to drive our work over the next four years to achieve our vision. Oregon will reimagine and transform learner experiences in order to enhance their future prospects, empower their communities, and build equity in an inclusive, sustainable, innovation-based economy . Your input is needed. We have been developing draft goals and an outline of Oregon’s CTE State Plan with stakeholders for the past seven months. Now, we need your input and feedback to strengthen our plan. Please review our visio...
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11-20-2019

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Volunteer at a local FIRST tournament With our FIRST LEGO League season two short weeks away, we are requesting help staffing these specific tournaments: Hill High, McMinnville, Concordia College, Medford, Roseburg, Grants Pass and Corvallis.  Teams have worked hard to prepare for their tournament and we can not run them without the support from our volunteers!  View the event schedules here: FIRST LEGO League  Register for an event here . Give Guide W e are now $3,170 closer to our $10,000 goal. We have many people "Doing Good!" in our robotics community.  Thank you to the supporters that are keeping us on track with our first year GIVE! Guide campaign! GIVE! Reminder - on November 21st:  $10 or more You Could Win:  Two tickets with parking to the Portland Trail Blazers vs. Minnesota (12/21/2019) game, two tickets with parking to the Trail Blazers vs. Milwaukie (01/11/2020), and a basketball signed by the entire tea...
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10-30-2019

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1. First Chance  It is not to late to join us!  Your team can still join the fun.  Do you have new drivers who need some practice before BunnyBots on December 21st?  Other new team members who want to see what a tournament will look like?  This is for you! Where : DW Fritz  9600 SW Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, OR 97070 When : November 9th @ 10am-5pm Why : To help train your Rookie team members Questions ? Contact  Martin Bamberger 2.   FIRST Fair Presentations   Thanks to our fabulous presenters we can now share part of what was done at FIRST Fair last weekend.  This folder is being provided as a resource to help teams remember and reference the concepts and skills they learned at FIRST Fair.  Don't see the session you attended?  Contact me and I will get you in contact with the presenter.  debbie-kerr@ortop.org We would appreciate your feedback !  If you attended FIRST Fair tell us what was most va...
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10/11/2019

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Dates to Remember: FIRST Fair Oct. 19th, 9-4pm   Mentor Roundtable Oct. 26, 1-4pm LEAP BunnyBots December 21st FIRST Fair @ Gladstone HS  18800 Portland Ave, Gladstone, OR 97027 Check out the schedule as some classes require re-registration.  Not many but we don't want your students to miss out on some great opportunities. Here are the  complete Class Descriptions    and the  Schedule of Classes.  Sessions** requiring sign-ups up are here.  Team members, mentors and team parents are welcome to attend. 2019 Girls Gen Results: Winning Alliance #6443 AEMBOT, Liberty High School #1540 Flaming Chickens, Caitlin Gabel #997 Spartan Robotics, Corvallis High School #4692 Metal Mallards, Toutle Lake School District Finalist Alliance #6343 Steel Ridge Robotics, Ridgefield High School #2733 Pigmice, Cleveland High School #4043 NerdHerd, McMinnville Oregon #5975 Beta Blues, St. Mary's Aca...
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