Scrimmage Registration Open

LEAP Summit
Kickoff January 5th
Scrimmage Registration

LEAP Summit
Teams are invited to come and watch the FRC teams who competed in this years LEAP challenge, hosted by team The Flaming Chickens #1540, to unveil their project at the Mercy Corp. in Portland this Saturday, December, 15th 1-3pm.  Teams have seven minutes to pitch their research and technology to a panel of judges and other competitors at the LEAP Summit in the Aceh Conference Room. If your team or individual students are interested in attending, please share this information with them. 

Kickoff January 5th 
  You should be hearing from your kickoff coordinators soon to give you specifics regarding your event. For event locations please view the ORTOP website.

Scrimmage Registration
If your team is interested in participating in the February 16th scrimmage at Corvallis High School, please get them registered. The cost is $100 unless your team is a Rookie, then your registration is FREE. We hope to have another full event!

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