FIRST e-Newsletter for October

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FIRST LEGO League Season Electrifies Thousands of teams eagerly awaited the September 5, 2007 unveiling of the FIRST LEGO League Power Puzzle Challenge - and they were not disappointed as they tuned in to the online Kickoff and learned about the Power Puzzle missions, rules, and project! This year's Challenge calls for teams of 9 to 14 year-old children to research and present their own creative solutions to one of today's most critical envioronmental issues: energy management and sustainability. more FIRST Tech Challenge Teams in "Quad Quandary" The FIRST Tech Challenge Program is off with a bang! Over 8,000 students , teachers, parents, and mentors are expected to participate. Many teams have been gearing up over the summer and ready to get started! more Meeting Inspires and Reinvigorates Woodie Flowers Award Winners In August, for the first time, winners of the Woodie Flowers Award (WFA) came together as a group to share their perspectives and experiences, and to focus on how to inspire and recognize more young people. more President's Circle Recommends Resources for Startup Teams At the FIRST Championship in April, I announded the inaugural year of the President's Circle. After reviewing a creative range of videos submitted thorught the FIRST Channel on YouTube, I invited twenty teams to come together to identify excellent existing resources that could be used to help get new teams started. more SPOTLIGHTS On Sponsors...Rockwell Collins, Smart Move From Smart Communications Leader On Alumni...Gordon Franken enters DARPA Challenge On Staff...The Faces of FIRST Team Support Good Reading! Available now at the FIRST Store. Released in April, 2007, "FIRST - Chronicles of Inspiration, Competition, and Changing the World" is a collection of stories, photographs, and testimonials about FIRST. more The FIRST eNewsletter --- Make it Yours! Thank you for reading the first edition of the FIRST eNewsletter. Future issues will have articles about many different topics that may, or may not, be of key interest to you. We'd like to be able to do this for subscribers who add information to their profiles by joining "interest groups" such as "mentor", "team member", "parent" and more. To confirm your subscription and join interest groups, please update your profile. October 2007 FIRST Notes FRC: View Important Deadlines Women in Science and Technology Forum FIRST and University of New Hampshire to host 7th Annual Women in Science and Technology Forum, November 2, in Manchester, NH. Register by October 29 FIRST Scholarships Last year over 438 individual scholarships, with a total value of approximately $8 million, were made available to FIRST students by the generosity of 77 institutions, corporations, and professional associations. We are currently expanding the number of scholarship opportunities and redesigning the way students can find out about these scholarships. In our next newsletter, read more about this scholarship program and what will be available to our FIRST students this coming year. For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology FIRST • 200 Bedford St., Manchester, NH 03101 • (800) 871-8326 • www.usfirst.org Our Mission: to design accessible, innovative programs that build not only science and technology skills and interests, but also self-confidence, leadership, and life skills.

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