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South Teams Advancement

2 = 6A Teams

5 = 5A Teams

2 = 1A to 4A Teams

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Advancement Report - FTC South Regional Championship

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Advancement Report - FTC South Regional Championship

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Top 4 - Advancements will be attending the FIRST World Championship

Advancement #5 - #11 - Will be receiving invitations and will need to submit their Event Preference List.

The following teams were close to advancing and should submit preference list if they want to be considered if additional capacity becomes available.

#22087 - Updawgs

#11009 - Robodogs

#22837 - Steely Eyed Missile Lions

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2026 Pit Layout  - FTC South Regional Championship

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2026 Pit Layout  - FTC South Regional Championship

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Pit Assignments for 2026 FTC South Regional Championship (BL Gray Jr High School)

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PIT LAYOUT_2026 FTC South Regional Championship

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FTC South Regional Championship - Map (BL Gray Jr High School)

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FTC South Regional Championship - Map (BL Gray Jr High School)

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BL Gray Jr High School

4400 Glasscock Road

Mission, TX

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BL Gray Jr High School Map - 2026 FTC South Regional Championship

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FTC-South Regional Championship (Team Info)

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FTC-South Regional Championship (Team Info)

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Event Itinerary and Team List for the 2026 FTC-South Regional Championship

Location: BL Gray Jr High School

Date: Feb. 21, 2026

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Judging Schedule - South Regional Championship

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Judging Schedule - South Regional Championship

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Judging Interviews for all teams will be on Tuesday, Feb. 17th. All Engineering Portfolios are due on Feb. 16th at 11:59PM.

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FTC Events site for the FiT-South Regional Championship

Location: BL Gray Jr High School

4400 Glasscock Road

Mission, TX

78572

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USTXCMP3 FTC Event Web : Event Information

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Official event information and results for the FiT-South Texas Regional Championship

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12 Teams are advancing from the South Texas Edison League to the FTC South Regional Championship

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13 Teams are advancing from the South Texas Tesla League to the FTC South Regional Championship.

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11 Teams are advancing from the South Texas Curie League to the FTC South Regional Championship.

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Judging Sessions for 2026 League Tournaments

(All Leagues - Curie/Tesla/Edison)

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FTC South League Tournament (Judging Sessions)_2026

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Volunteering opportunities for January 2026 Events

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Updated Dec. 19, 2025 -

FTC South Season Calendar_V3

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FTC South Season Calendar_V3 2025-2026_Updated Dec 19 2025

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League Assignment for Tesla LM3 at Cano Academy in Harlingen, TX

12/6/25

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FTC South_TESLA 25_26 LM3 DECODE_Cano Academy

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League Assignment for Edison LM3 at Cano Academy in Harlingen, TX

12/6/2025

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FTC South_EDISON 25_26_LM3 (DECODE) Cano Academy

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Information on www.ftc-events.firstinspires.org pertaining to all FiT Region teams, events, & leagues in Texas.

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Official region info for Texas - FIT region

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Cano Freshman Academy (Harlingen, TX)

December 6, 2025

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Tesla & Edison League Meet #3 Map_Cano Freshman Academy

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December 4, 2025 - Email Blast

FIRST in Texas Advancement Allocations

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Texas FTC Celebrates Major Advancement Opportunities

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Load-In / Parking Map for Nov. 15, 2025

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Arrival Map for Tesla/Edison LM2 at Sharyland HS (Nov. 15, 2025)

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Arrival Map for November 1, 2025 (LM1 Events - Tesla & Edison)

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Parking & Load-In Map for November 1, 2025 (LM1 Events - Tesla & Edison)

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Updated - 10/30/2025

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FTC-South teams we usually FTC-Events for official league meet results and rankings. I noticed that all information is not updated. We can use the results from FTC Scouts for data on rankings/results for now. The FTC Events will eventually update once the bug is fixed. All data is captured in our system for the (Tesla/Edison LM1 Events)

https://ftcscout.org/

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Curie LM2 (Nov. 15, 2025)

Cigarroa High School (Laredo, TX)

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South Texas Scrimmage- Sharyland HS

Oct. 4, 2025

Time: 8:00am to 12:00pm

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Confirm your attendance at the FTC South Scrimmage. 

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Confirm your attendance at the FTC South Scrimmage. 

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Fill out this Form and confirm your team(s) attendance at the FTC South Scrimmage Event on Oct. 4, 2025 at Sharyland HS.

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Email - Sent out 9/4/2025

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Our New Website and Coach Portal Are Live!

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FTC South_TESLA 25_26 LM1 DECODE (version 3)

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Team List for South Texas Scrimmage

Updated: 10/1/2025

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Confirm your attendance at the FTC South Kickoff Event

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Confirm your attendance at the FTC South Kickoff Event

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Fill out this Form and confirm your team's attendance at the FTC South Texas Kickoff Event on September 6, 2025 at Sharyland HS.

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2025-2026 Game & Season Materials

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FIRST Tech Challenge 2023 - 2024 Game & Season Materials

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Download Logos/Images/Wallpaper/Branding for Rebuilt/Decode/Unearthed

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Download and enjoy content from FIRST to help you power up for the FIRST AGE season of FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Tech Challenge, and FIRST LEGO League. Free content for download includes game logos, wallpapers, social graphics, style guides, posters, and more FIRST AGEcontent.

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FIRST HQ Team Grant Opportunities

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Team Grant Opportunities

FIRST is proud to share these opportunities for grant funding from our sponsors. New grant opportunities will be posted throughout the year, so check back often.
Your Program Delivery Partner is another great resource for potential local grant opportunities.

If you are expecting a grant, please do not check out until that grant has been awarded. FIRST will not be able to make changes to orders after checkout. For more details, please read the FIRST payment terms.

Grant availability and restrictions are determined by Sponsor Intent.

Click on the Details to view the grant application and learn more about restrictions and requirements

To search for non-state specific grants use the Location filter and select --All Areas--

More team fundraising ideas are available in the FIRST Fundraising toolkit.

Additional questions? View the Team Grant FAQ and/or Regrant page.

Question on a specific grant? Email teamgrants@firstinspires.org.

Check back frequently for new or modified opportunities.

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FIRST is a global robotics community preparing young people for the future and the world's leading youth-serving nonprofit advancing STEM education.

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Student team sponsorship grants are for approved competitions (FRC, FTC, SAE, etc.) in which students design and build a product that utilizes CNC machining.
Apply now for the 2025/2026 school year

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Explore education grants, scholarships, and student competitions in CNC technology through the Gene Haas Foundation. Apply now and advance manufacturing education.

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Changes to FTC Advancement & FIRST Championship

Posted: July 31, 2025

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FIRST® Championship and FIRST® Tech Challenge Premier Event Capacity

In 2026 for the DECODE™ presented by RTX season, we will be welcoming 336 teams to the FIRST Championship, up (31%) from 256 teams last season.

As part of this growth, we are also continuing to improve how teams advance. Last year, we piloted the addition of Premier Events to help create more opportunities. This increased the number of advancing teams from 2.8% to 7.2% of teams. While we are planning to follow up with details and statistics, the surveys overwhelmingly show that teams said they enjoyed these Premier Events and want more of these opportunities.

In 2025-26 for DECODE we will continue offering these events and scaling up the advancement opportunities. Our intent is to create advancement opportunities for 8-8.5% of teams. This means more teams will have the chance to celebrate their season and all their hard work on a global stage.

In addition to continuing to expand advancement opportunities we are excited to roll out a new advancement system for the FIRST® Tech Challenge.

Our Evolving Advancement Model

We previously mentioned that we are collecting feedback and working with volunteers, coaches, and partners to look at how advancement can be improved. Over the summer, a dedicated multi-disciplinary group focused specifically on this topic, and now we are excited to share the results.

The new advancement system is designed to reward well-rounded teams with an approach that combines robot performance and awards. Instead of advancing on specific achievements, teams now earn points throughout the event.

Below we will highlight many of the changes, and some of the reasoning behind this change. We encourage those interested in the details to dig in with a supporting white paper which showcases more of the model and process.

Of course, read the official DECODE Competition Manual for the final details. The preview release will be available in early August.

Advancement: Background and Goals

Our working group brought together voices from all parts of the FIRST Tech Challenge community, and included Program Delivery Partners, FIRST Staff, coaches, alumni, developers, and others across a wide range of regions and roles. We also worked with members of the Robotics Competition Advancement Task Force who were excited to share the lessons they learned during their own implementation.

This group looked closely at the current system, where advancement typically followed a set order: judged awards, then robot performance, then back to judged awards, and so on. While this made things predictable, it sometimes forced teams to focus narrowly on one goal, like trying to win a specific award or focusing only on their robot performance. This was even more common in situations when only a few spots were available to advance.

But FIRST Tech Challenge is about more than one specific moment or achievement. Teams succeed in many different ways; on the field, in judging, in how they work together and represent their values. We want an advancement system that reflects everything teams bring to an event, rewards teams who are growing in multiple areas of the program, and helps make the experience more positive, inclusive, and motivating.

Advancement: What's Changing

Under the new advancement system, teams will accrue advancement points throughout an event. At the end of the event, the top N teams according to advancement points will advance. Advancement points are gained over the course of a single event, so teams are only being compared with other teams at their event when considering advancement. This system will be used at all events for the 2025-2026 season - Qualifying Tournaments, League Tournaments, Super Qualifying Tournaments, and Regional Championships.

There are four ways teams earn advancement points at an event:

Qualification Round Performance: Teams will earn points based on their qualification ranking.

Alliance Captains and Draft Order Acceptance: Teams will earn points based on the playoff alliance they are a part of, either as the captain or an alliance partner. Alliance captains and their partners receive the same number of points.

Playoff Advancement: Teams will earn points based on how far their team progresses in the double-elimination bracket.

Team Judged Awards: Teams will earn points based on awards they receive from the judges.

Note: These points will be calculated and totaled automatically by the FIRST Tech Challenge Event Management System and will be visible/accessible online for teams to view.

For those familiar with FIRST Robotics Competition and their advancement models, these categories will look familiar. While we used the FIRST Robotics Competition model as an inspiration, this new structure is tailored for FIRST Tech Challenge and the systems within the program.

Advancement: The Points Summary

Qualification Round Performance: (16 points max, 2 points min - regardless of event size) At the end of qualification matches, the top ranked team will receive 16 points. The lowest ranked team receives a minimum of 2 points. All other teams fall on a distribution within that range based on their rank.

Alliance Captains and Draft Order Acceptance: (20 points max) The next two categories are very similar, and both related to the alliance selection process. These points are awarded at the END of alliance selection. Teams may earn advancement points for being an alliance captain, or for being drafted and accepting an invitation to join an alliance - they cannot receive points for both.

Note: The alliance captain and drafted team for each alliance receive the same number of points.

Advancement points for both of these categories are calculated by subtracting the alliance number from 21. For example, a team on the number 1 alliance will earn 20 points (21 - 1 = 20), while a team on the 6th alliance will earn 15 points (21 - 6 = 15).

Alliance Captains: Teams earn advancement points based on the alliance number they captain (i.e. alliance 1, alliance 2, etc.).

Draft Order Acceptance: Similarly to the points awarded to Alliance Captains, teams earn advancement points based on the alliance number they accepted an invitation to join.

Playoff Advancement: (40, 20, 10, 5, or 0 points) The further into the playoffs an alliance progresses, the more points the teams on that alliance receive. All teams on an alliance receive the same number of playoff advancement points.

1st Place (Winner): 40 points

2nd Place (Finalist): 20 points

3rd Place: 10 points

4th Place: 5 points

5th and below: 0 points

Team Judged Awards: (60 max points) Teams earn advancement points when they receive recognition from the Judges. As the top award in FIRST Tech Challenge, the Inspire Award is given more points. However, all other awards receive the same number of points (including the Judges' Choice Award).

Inspire Award:

Inspire 1: 60 points

Inspire 2: 30 points

Inspire 3: 15 points

All other awards:

1st Place: 12 points

2nd Place: 6 points

3rd Place: 3 points

LEARN MORE: For a detailed look at the reasoning behind each category and the math which makes it work, please refer to the separate " FIRST Tech Challenge 2025-2026 Advancement Model Details " PDF. This document also showcases some simulations highlighting the impact we expect from these changes.

Advancement: Predicted Impact

How can we gauge the effect of using advancement points for FIRST Championship and FIRST Tech ChallengePremier Events?

When developing and tuning this model we looked at how the new advancement points model would have impacted advancement to the 2025 FIRST Championship. While this is not a perfect representation, it serves as a good way to check our model against our desired outcomes.

After expanding our evaluation to a 336-team FIRST Championship, and comparing the list of teams who would have advanced based on the new advancement points model with the list of teams who attended the 2025 FIRST Championship, we observed the following:

~10% of Winning Alliance Captains and Inspire Award Winners (teams guaranteed advancement under the previous system) would not have advanced to the FIRST Championship based on the new points model.
After investigating the events where this occurred, it is due to a combination of an event having relatively few advancement slots (most commonly two) and teams who did very well in either robot performance or team judged awards, but not well in the other category.

Advancement for Winning Alliance Picks increases from 67% to 72%.

Advancement for Finalist Alliance members increases from 18% to 40%.

Advancement for 1st Place Team Judged Awards (excluding the Inspire Award). increases from 11% to 19%

Because advancement from Regional Championships not only includes the FIRST Championship but also FIRST Tech ChallengePremier Events, we looked at the effect of a much larger advancement pool. Looking at a larger model for both FIRST Championship and FIRST Premier Events yielded the following results.

100% of Winning Alliances and Inspire Award Winners advance.

91% of Finalist Alliances advance.

90% of Inspire Award 2nd Place Recipients advance.

65% of Inspire Award 3rd Place Recipients advance.

46% of teams who won any 1st Place Team Judged Award (excluding the Inspire Award) advance.

We did not stop at the overall statistics. If you review the separate " FIRST Tech Challenge 2025-2026 Advancement Model Details " PDF, you can see two of the many events (anonymized) we analyzed to understand the "real" impact of the new model on familiar regions and teams.

These final results gave us confidence that the system we developed rewarded the well-rounded teams we aimed to recognize and also scaled well over a wide variety of advancement totals, covering potential FIRST Championship growth in the future as well as FIRST Tech ChallengePremier Events.

Looking Forward - Potential Future Changes

While we believe these changes are an improvement from the previous model, there are still other areas that may be able to be improved for future years. We will continue to evaluate future changes and announce if we decide to implement anything additional for future seasons.

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Discover the new advancement system for FIRST Tech Challenge 2025-2026 season, designed to reward well-rounded teams and expand opportunities for success.

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FTC South_EDISON 25_26_LM1 DECODE (version 3)

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Pre-order your 2025-2026 FIRST Tech Challenge game sets through the AndyMark website or FIRST storefront, with specific options and payment instructions for teams.

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Archive of FIRST Tech Challenge team email blasts for the 2025-2026 DECODE presented by Raytheon Technologies season:

Team Email Blast Archive
Team Blast 08/21/25

Less than one month until Season Kickoff

Changes to FIRST Tech Challenge Dean's List Award Deadline

2025-2026 FIRST Tech Challenge Hardship Grant

Team Blast 08/07/25

2025-2026 FIRST Tech Challenge Hardship Grant

A New Login Experience is Coming

FIRST® Certified Professional Development

Team Blast 07/31/25

DECODE™ presented by RTX Kickoff!

2025-2026 FIRST Tech Challenge Hardship Grant

Team Blast 05/22/25

Collecting Feedback from the FIRST Tech Challenge Community

FIRST Tech Challenge SDK Sound Effects Competition

Team Blast 5/08/2025

Waitlist Opportunities for Premier Events!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week

Off-season Events

AndyMark Game Set Orders

Celebrate FIRST Signing Day - May 20

Team Blast 5/01/2025

Waitlist Opportunities for Premier Events!

Celebrating FIRST Championship

Thank You for an Incredible Season

National Advocacy Conference 2025

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Archive of FIRST Tech Challenge team email blasts

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1216 N. Shary Road

Mission, TX 78572

Entrance via Taylor Road

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Hosted - Sharyland High School

Mission, TX

Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm

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Team Registration Includes:

Official FIRST Tech Challenge Team Number

Register and compete in Official FIRST Tech Challenge Events

Access to the FIRST Storefront for discounted control systems components and robot kits.

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FIRST® Tech Challenge' s thrilling robotics competitions help students develop a sense of accomplishment and the understanding that they can do anything with their collective skills, leadership, and confidence, and that their experience will positively impact their future and take them further than any other sport can.

2024-2025 INTO THE DEEP SM presented by RTX
Season team registration for North American teams is $295. International team registration varies by location. All costs for individual team members are assumed by the team as a group.
Your season team registration Registered teams also receive complimentary access to FIRST fundraising tools and resources to help teams create their own opportunities. Needs-based grants and sponsorship for teams may also be available locally, regionally, and nationally by many corporations. includes:
*For teams outside of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico who do not register in the FIRST Dashboard, please contact your local Program Delivery Partner for registration and product information.
Additional cost considerations may include:
**All products on your team's order, will be invoiced at the time of purchase.

A reusable robot kit of parts required for game play with purchase options starting at about $1,000. Season team registration fee does not include shipping and handling, robot control system hardware, or robot kits.

Additional fees for registration to local and/or remote FIRST Tech Challenge events. These fees are set and collected by the local Program Delivery Partner. Season team registration does not guarantee events are available in your area.

Kit of Parts Options

For team registration, follow the instructions below:

Teams can order their robot supplies in the FIRST Tech Challenge Storefront. This will combine the registration payment and kit of parts fees together, requiring only one bill and automatically deducting any awarded grants from the final total. If you are waiting for a Rookie Grant, please do not proceed through the payment section.
Kit of Parts Options and Pricing REV Bill of Materials TETRIX Kit Bill of Materials
In the Storefront, teams will have several options for purchase, including either a REV or TETRIX Competition set. You can also find more information about the two kits in our REV and TETRIX Bill of Materials.

For pricing outside of North America, contact your local representative. For questions on kit options or ordering please contact firsttechchallenge@firstinspires.org.

If you are looking to incorporate FIRST into your classroom or after-school programming, learn more about FIRST Class Pack, a flexible implementation option for up to 24 students.

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FIRST in Texas (South) Volunteer Opportunities

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FIRST in Texas (South) Volunteer Opportunities

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REV Robotics is thrilled to announce that we’re awarding $100,000 in sponsorships to FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics Competition teams who are ready to unearth greatness. Whether you’re decoding ancient innovations or rebuilding the wonders of the past, we want passionate teams to join us as #TeamREV Brand Ambassadors on this season’s thrilling adventure.

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Updated 2025-2026 Decode FTC Calendar - 09/22/2025

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FTC South Season Calendar_V2 2025-2026_Updated Sept 22 2025

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2025-2026 Decode FTC Calendar for South Texas

Posted 8/25/2025

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Load-In & Parking Map for Curie LM1 at Harmony School of Excellence

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Harmony (Laredo) Load-In Map_League Meet 1 Nov 8 2025

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Curie LM2 Assignments - Updated 11/15/2025