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.

SKYSTONE Documents

• • Game materials such as field piece assembly and field dimensions (available 9/7/19)
  • Challenge information and rules (available 9/7/19)
  • 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

Meets

The following Meets are scheduled in the Kansas City area during the 2019-20 season.  Note: Meets are subject to registration numbers and may be cancelled if low registration.  See the Calendar for the latest information on Meets (Calendar can be filtered by FTC).  All Meet days will have two meets, one held in the morning and one held in the evening.

Nov 2: Notre Dame de Sion

Nov 9: Heritage Christian Academy

Nov 16: Center High School

Dec 7: KC Engineering Zone, hosted by Cobalt Colts and Astromechs

Jan 18: St. Teresa’s Academy

Jan 25: Lee’s Summit High School

Meets are short, robot play-only events that help teams with their iterative design process.

• 12 teams play five matches each (no judging or alliances)
• Meets are approximately 4 hours long; great for after school events or quick weekend events
• Your team fee covers up to two meets, but participation is optional.
• Choose from any of the meets listed, not limited to geographic area (we don’t play League model)
• Ranking Points and Tie Breaker Points are used to determine ranking within Conferences (NW, SW, NE or SE)
• Top ranked teams advance to Conference Qualifier.
• Note: Teams are required to play in a Qualifier in order to advance through the Meet System.

Note: In the Kansas City area, all of our Meet days include two independent Meets that can be registered for independently.  Time frames are:

• Meet one – 8am-noon
• Meet two – 1pm-5pm

Qualifiers

The following Qualifiers are scheduled in the Kansas City area during the 2019-20 season. Note: Qualifiers are subject to registration numbers and may be cancelled if low registration. See the Calendar for the latest information on Qualifiers (Calendar can be filtered by FTC).

Dec 14: Pleasant Lea Middle School (Lee’s Summit)

Jan 11: Yeokum Center of Innovation (Belton)

Feb 1: Potential Qualifier TBD

Feb 8: Potential Make-up Date if cancellation occurs

Feb 15: Western Conference Qualifier at Blue Springs High School (must qualify through Meets)

Qualifiers are a complete competition day, including judging, qualifying rounds, alliance selections and awards.

• Qualifiers advance teams directly to the Missouri Championship.
• All MO/KS teams are required to attend a qualifier if they wish to advance via the meet system.
• Registration will be through MO/KS systems–not through your dashboard.

This site offers detailed information about meets and qualifiers in the MO/KS region.

Registration for all meets and qualifiers 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.

Please refer to http://stlfirst.org/ftc-team-portal-page under Competition Outline and the tab for Event Cancellation Policy.

See results from all Missouri and Kansas FIRST Tech Challenge tournaments on the Missouri FTC Scores site.

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

If you would like to host an off-season event or participate in a 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
• Nov. 2017 Team Location Map – see the pins for 202 KS/MO teams
• 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
• SKYSTONE Game Page: Find game resources
• 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 one of two paths.  A) The team competes in one of the qualifiers during the season, the top teams from these competitions will advance to the state championship.  B) The team plays in Meets and the top teams (using Ranking Point and Tie Breaker Points) are invited to participate in the Western Conference Qualifier.  The top teams from this Qualifier will advance to the state championship.   The advancement criterion is the same at all FTC qualifiers.