Chairman's Award, FIRST Dean's List Award, Woodie Flowers Award and Entrepreneurship Award Submissions open today, 11/14/13 at 12 pm (noon) ET

The Chairman's Award, the Woodie Flowers Award, and the Entrepreneurship Award must be submitted via STIMS: https://my.usfirst.org/stims/site.lasso. The Main or Alternate contact for your team must assign at least one (1) and up to four (4) student award submitters in FRC TIMS: https://my.usfirst.org/frc/tims/site.lasso.

The FIRST Dean's List Award must be submitted by the team's Main or Alternate contact through TIMS: https://my.usfirst.org/frc/tims/site.lasso.

FIRST Future Innovator Award sponsored by the Abbott Fund: Teams will be able to submit for the First Future Innovator Award sponsored by the Abbott Fund beginning 11/14/13 at 12 pm (noon) ET via: https://www.allthingspatent.com/maxidv4/ffia/. New this year, the winner of the FIRST Future Innovator Award will have a personal meeting with Dean Kamen!

Robots Come FIRST at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: Five award-winning FRC teams and their robots will have the honor of opening the 87th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, 11/28/13 in New York City. For more information, please visit:http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/robots-come-first-at-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade.

Important Kit & Kickoff Reminder: The deadline to select your team's Kit and Kickoff preferences in TIMS: https://my.usfirst.org/frc/tims/site.lasso is Thursday, 12/5/13 at 12 pm (noon) ET.

Finance Reminder: The payment deadline for teams' initial regional or district events is Friday, 12/6/13. If you are planning on submitting a Purchase Order to secure your registration, please fax (603-206-2079) or email (ar@usfirst.org) it to our Finance Department as soon as possible. Securing your registration will ensure that your KoP is shipped to your Kickoff location.

Robot Transport Exemptions: If bringing your robot to a competition event presents your team with a substantial hardship - for example, if your team needs to travel a great distance or cross an ocean to get to your event - you may request a Robot Transport Exemption by sending an email to: frclogistics@usfirst.org.

In your request, please include as much detail as possible to support why an exemption is required. Please use the subject line: Robot Transport Exemption Request, Team XXXX, with your team number in place of "XXXX" in your email. Exemption requests must be submitted by Friday, 12/6/13.