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Here's the latest news from the FIRST Community Blog!
- Read Team Update 05 and Team Update 06 featuring...
- Exceptions to maximum height in the Player Station - momentary extensions above 78.0 in (1.91m), PPE or headwear on human players, as well as results due to visible damage
- District and FIRST Championships may allow inspection during load-in
- All Robots and Robot elements Loaded-In may not leave until Load-Out
Starter Robot Resources: Find inspiration for this year's build
FIRST Choice Ordering is Open
All Teams may now order AndyMark parts using credits issued to your Dashboard via FIRST Choice. The open ordering phase of FIRST Choice is a traditional first-come, first-serve ordering process. Teams add items to their carts and check-out using credits remaining after the priority list phases. Read more about the process on the FIRST website. Teams who already made Priority Lists for their FIRST Choice parts should have already seen the ship.
Award Deadlines
The award deadlines for Woodie Flower's Award, Dean's List, and the FIRST Impact award are just around the corner! So far, a little more than a quarter of all FRC teams have entered nominations for Woodie's and Dean's - Add your team to that number and recognized the amazing individuals that keep Build Season moving! See this article on the FIRST blog for more tips about each award.
Read this article on Helpful Tips for Awards Submissions!
The FIRST Impact Award, the most prestigious award at FIRST, honors the team that best embodies the mission of FIRST. It celebrates FRC's central goal of transforming the culture in ways that will inspire greater levels of respect for science and technology, as well as encouraging youth to become science and technology leaders. The award can be submitted either by Lead Coach 1 or 2 to or a student team member set as a designated award submitter in the FIRST Dashboard. Nominate your team by showing how it best exemplify the true meaning of FIRST through measurable impact on participants, school, and community at large with emphasis on promoting science and technology through FIRST programs. Coaches can also help by selecting an adult to oversee the process and support the student submitter.
Nominate a mentor who has an outstanding job guiding - and challenging - your team. Every team has a mentor who has inspired them to show up, pitch in, and solve problems as a team! Students pick the mentor that means this to them - Coaches, assign up to two students as designated award submitter in the team Dashboard, who then submit an essay via their Dash. Coaches can also help by selecting an adult to oversee the process and support the student submitter. Celebrate the mentors that make your team great!
Coaches and mentors - nominate a team member who's leadership, commitment, and dedication to outreach make them outstanding role-models of FIRST's Core Values. Recognize the great leaders on your team, and help show then and the whole community what Gracious Professionalism, Coopetition , and FIRST is all about. Have a coach or mentor submit your team's nomination application through the Dashboard.
Team Planning and Development
Software
At time of publication, these are the latest versions of necessary software. Get those uploads in ASAP!
For Returning Teams: WPI Lib Provides a software guide to update your system
For New Teams: Head to the Zero-to-Reboot guide!
Latest Versions
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FRC Game Tools: 2026
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LabVIEW: 2026
- Driver Station: 26.0 or later
- roboRio 2.0: Version 2026_v1.2 or later
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