FIRST Tech Challenge Team Portal

Congratulations! Your team registration means you’ve joined a community brimming with inspiration, creativity, and hope for a stronger, more sustainable future—one that’s built better together. You have the power to help the cities, towns, and places you call home reach new heights. With the support of the FIRST community, this is your opportunity to lead our future forward—and up.

ULTIMATE GOAL Documents

• • Game materials such as field piece assembly and field dimensions
  • Challenge information and rules (available 9/12/2020)
  • Robot Building Resources
  • Programming Resources

• Consent and Release Form (Only needed if participants have not completed this online through FIRSTInspires.org)

Use these sites to stay up to date throughout the season:

• FIRST Tech Challenge Forum: Ask questions, follow the topic threads
• FIRST Tech Challenge Blog: See the latest news from headquarters

League Play

For the 2020-2021 FTC season, the Kansas City region will transition to Title League Play.

Meets in MO/KS for ULTIMATE GOAL

• (Extended to run Dec. – Feb.)

• • All Meets are played within the team’s assigned League
  • All Meets are played remote and scores reported using the FTC Live scoring app
  • Each team submits 6 match scores for each Meet
  • May as many times as you want
  • Top 10 match scores are carried forward into the League Championship
  • Meets are designed to help teams with their iterative design process

League Championships

League Championships are the qualifying event to State Championship and they run the last week of Feb. – March.

• Teams are placed in a League and must play in that League Championship
• Teams will carry their top 10 match scores into the League Championship
• League Championships will be remote this season
• Teams will submit their 5 match scores during the week
• Judging will be remote within the Remote Event Hub at an assigned time on Saturday
• Trophies are awarded and select teams advance to Missouri State Championship.

State Championship

State Championship will also be a fully remote event this season.

It is scheduled for the week of 4/18 – 4/24.

Teams are to turn in remote match scores during the week and remote judging will be held on Saturday, April 24.

Registration for league events in Missouri or Kansas takes place through the FIRST Tech Challenge Partner.  Please refer to http://stlfirst.org/ftc-team-portal-page under Competition Outline and the tab for Registration Fees and Event Selection Process to register.

Check out the Missouri FTC Scores site for event dates and results.

Watch the Events Calendar and Team News & Events page for events as they come up.

If you would like to participate in a off-season or STEM outreach event, we may be able to help.  We can rent or loan items—from kits and parts to field components—to help teams and organizations in the area with STEM outreach and to make FIRST more widely known and accessible to all.

Please complete the Equipment Agreement Form and email to kcstem@kcstem.org.  We also have space at the KC Engineering Zone for Open Fields or other STEM outreach events. Send us a note at kcstem@kcstem.org to find out more.

• MO FTC SCORES Tracks teams and event results throughout the season
• MO/KS FIRST Tech Challenge Newsletter – Archive of MO/KS Team Emails
• STLFIRST Includes MO/KS FIRST Tech Challenge Regional Partner information for FIRST Tech teams in Kansas and Missouri

• FIRST Tech Challenge @ FIRST Inspires: Program overview
• ULTIMATE GOAL Game Page: Find game resources
• ULTIMATE GOAL Season Team Webinar Recordings
• FIRST Tech Challenge Forum: Ask questions, follow the topic threads
• FIRST Tech Challenge Blog: Keep up with the latest news from headquarters
• FIRST Tech Challenge Team Email Blasts: An archive of news sent to teams by headquarters
• FIRST Tech Challenge on Reddit: Not an official FIRST site

Teams advance to the state championship through their League Championship.