[Dprglist] Fwd: DPRG Community Outreach (and Fun) - FTC Volunteer Judges Wanted In February

Wed Feb 7 18:09:08 PST 2024

I and my three teams so much appreciate Paul's wonderful offer to gather a
DPRG member group to contribute as judges for the FTC Regional Championship
coming up on February 24th. It's a deeply impactful way to mentor the
upcoming generation.

I also have to apologize for offering the Championship as an option. It
turns out that because of the number of times Iron Reign has presented
to you, we have to consider DPRG to be our sponsors. Your time is more
valuable than money. As such, it would be considered a conflict of interest
to have a group of you judging. While we are expected to recruit
volunteers, we should have no more than one with a conflict of interest.
Any more than that would nullify Iron Reign's chances of advancing to State.

The competition itself is still open to spectators and you would be more
than welcome to come watch the robot action and cheer on the team. But I
have to humbly ask that we don't try to register more than one judge.
Please let me know if you need any further information.

Kind Regards,

Karim
for the Iron teams

On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 2:52 PM Paul Bouchier via DPRGlist <
dprglist at lists.dprg.org> wrote:

> DPRG folk - I want to designate Feb 24 (the Saturday after Presidents day)
> as a DPRG-helps-FTC-judging day, and see if we can get a group together to
> do judging. This is the North TX Regional championships, so we should see
> some top teams, which is a really enriching experience - it makes me feel
> like maybe the world isn't going to hell in a handbasket after all :-).
> Please consider joining me in Flower Mound for this event.
>
> I volunteered for 2/24 and would love to see some of you there too. When I
> did it last year it was really high-energy and rewarding to see all those
> high-schoolers with really advanced robots and to assess their business
> presentation, engineering notebooks, the design and creativity in their
> robots, and how much they really knew about it.
>
> Here is the judge job description (from the FTC site):
> The primary role of a Judge is to interview teams, and to decide which
> teams deserve an award based on team interviews, the robot, match play, and
> the engineering portfolio. 6 Judges are paired in groups of 2 - 3 to
> interview a set number of teams before the competition begins as well as
> interviews in the pit area.
> -Interview and watch teams in the judging rooms, the pit, and on the
> playing field.
> -Take part on judge panel to decide team award recipients.
> Prerequisite: FIRST experience. BlueVolt training courses. (Paul's
> observation: you don't really need FIRST experience - most DPRG folk have
> been around robots enough to be competent. But they do make you do the
> bluevolt Youth Protection training courses).
>
> Signing up: I clicked the link given for the 2/24/2024 competition:
> https://my.firstinspires.org/Volunteers/Wizard/Search/2?EventId=70541
> https://my.firstinspires.org/Volunteers/Wizard/Search/2?EventId=70541
> It asked me to log in, which I did using my email/passwd from last year.
> You may need to register. I selected the date and selected the judge role
> out of the available jobs, and it's taken me to a place where it shows my
> profile and has a link to uncompleted tasks, which are to take the online
> Youth Protection Training (on a site called bluevolt). Warning: it's not at
> all obvious how you're supposed to get enrolled - you have to read the web
> page pretty carefully.
>
> Let me or Karim know, either on the list, or directly to
> paul.bouchier at gmail.com if you can help, and we'll know to look out for
> each other and share previous experience.
>
> Thanks, and I hope to see you there.
>
> Paul Bouchier
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Carl Ott via DPRGlist <dprglist at lists.dprg.org>
> Date: Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:10 PM
> Subject: [Dprglist] DPRG Community Outreach (and Fun) - FTC Volunteer
> Judges Wanted In February
> To: DPRG D-List <dprglist at dprg.org>
>
>
> As Karim noted in last night's DPRG RBNV - FTC is entering the most
> advanced part of this competition season. This is that time when the
> most capable teams pull out all the stops and launch their best moon shots
> for a golden ticket to Worlds.
>
> As a club, DPRG frequently offers member support to help judge. This helps
> FTC and frankly is a fun way to contribute to and encourage youngster's
> growth. Like many DPRG members, I have personally enjoyed and been inspired
> when I served.
>
> So please check your calendars and consider helping out on one or more
> days. You'll need to complete a brief online registration which FTC will
> need time to review. So please register as soon as possible.
>
> - Carl
>
> Here's background from Karim
>
> FTC Volunteer Judges Wanted
>
> FTC is a high school robotics competition and we have a great need for
> judges with experience like DPRG members have.  We have 3 events that we
> are recruiting for over the next several weeks. Locations and details in
> the links:
>
> FiT-North U^2 Tournament
>
> 2/3/2024 - all day
>
> UME Prepatory Academy
> 3838 TX-408 Spur, Dallas, TX 75236
>
> https://my.firstinspires.org/Volunteers/Wizard/Search/2?EventId=70536
>
>
> FiT-North Semi-Area Championship Stage Right
>
> 2/19/2024 (conflicts with DPRG annual mtg)
>
> Woodrow Wilson HS, Dallas ISD
> 100 S Glasgow Dr, Dallas, TX 75214
>
> https://my.firstinspires.org/Volunteers/Wizard/Search/2?EventId=70535
>
>
> FiT-North Area Championship (North Texas Region)
>
> 2/24/2024
>
> Marcus HS Marauder Activity Center
> 5707 Morriss Rd, Flower Mound, TX 75028
>
> https://my.firstinspires.org/Volunteers/Wizard/Search/2?EventId=70541
>
>
> Karim is happy to assist anyone with the volunteer registration process.
> Contact Karim through the dprglist. Even if you don't need help, please
> let Karim know if you've signed up.
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