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Imagine it, the FIRST World Championships and Festival . You are in America�s Ballroom, which is packed with teams, coaches and mentors, video cameras and photographers, and Dean Kamen. He�s speaking to you about the importance of STEM, and how you are the future. But he doesn�t mean �you� rhetorically or �you� as an audience member or �you� as a young adult. He literally means you , a Dean�s List Award Winner. Alec Kumpf and Simran Parwani are both 2014 FIRST Robotics Competition Dean�s List winners. Since 2010, ten FRC team members each year have been on the stage in America�s Ballroom with Dean Kamen to receive the Dean�s List Award, meaning Simran and Alec are part of a group of fifty winners. That�s fifty out of almost five thousand finalists.   This year, there will be ten more FRC team members added to the ranks, and for the first time, ten FTC team members as well. Alec onstage at the FIRST Dean's List Award ceremony �The whole experience is priceless. Very few experienc...

FIRST Tech Challenge is excited to partner with AndyMark on Field and Game Elements for the 2014-2015 Season.  That means you no longer have to build a practice field, but can purchase one from AndyMark and have it shipped to you after Kickoff (no Team pre-orders!). They will offer teams a full or half field option and each kit comes with the Field Setup elements and Game Elements. Don't worry, you can still build a field if you want to! But what will they be? Each year, the Game Design Committee drums up a new element that presents a variety of manipulation challenges for teams to overcome. They've chosen wiffle balls, rings, two varieties of racquet balls, hockey pucks and batons, to name a few.  Since elements are different from year to year, teams must redesign their robots each season to accommodate the new item and the scoring objectives. What do you think this year's element will be?  Leave your guesses below and go to a kickoff event , or go to www.usfirst.org/...