BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.6.4.4//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:703@playingatlearning.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE:20260228 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE:20260302 DTSTAMP:20260226T193333Z URL:https://www.playingatlearning.org/events/norcalftc-ct-2025-2026/ SUMMARY:NorCal FTC Regional Championship 2025-2026 DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nVOLUNTEER SIGNUPS:   - see list of roles at bottom     Learn more about volunteering\nRETURNING FIRST Volunteers - Traditi onal sign up link - just need an account on firstinspires.org:  https://m y.firstinspires.org/Volunteers/Wizard/Search/2?EventId=78207\nNEW FIRST Vo lunteers - you can use the express enrollment link:  https://my.firstinsp ires.org/ExpressVolunteer/landing-page/069697df-f977-11f0-920d-00505699b84 8\nLearn more about this year's Challenge - DECODE  -  Animation Game Vi deo\, Competition Manual\nNEW as of 2/26:\n.     Campus Map\,\n.     Pit Map\,\n.     High Level Schedule\n.      Judging and Inspectio ns times were emailed 2/26 morning to Lead Coach 1 and Lead Coach 2 accord ing to the FIRST team dashboard.\n\n \;\n\n\nSaturday 2/28:\n\nAll Tea ms Check-In starting at 2:30pm\nAll Team Judging and Robot Inspections bet ween  2:30pm - 7:30pm\nVenue closing at 8pm\n\nSunday 3/01:\nVenue doors open at 7:00am <\;nbsp\;>\;\nTeams Check-In at 7:15am  [judging inter view exceptions only] <\;nbsp\;>\;\nTeam Judging and Robot Inspections starting at 7:30am [exceptions only] <\;nbsp\;>\;\nDriver Meeting at 8:30am <\;nbsp\;>\;\n\nOpening Ceremony and Visitors Welcome at 9:00am   - estimated times\nQualifying Rounds from 9:30am to 3:450pm  - estimat ed times\nElimination Round &\; Awards starts at 4:0pm  - estimated ti mes\nVenue closing at 7:30pm  - estimated times\n\nTeams are assigned to a pit area in team number order per division. Each team that passes robot inspection will complete at least 5 qualifying robot game matches. If all teams pass inspection on Saturday\, we likely can add additional qualifyin g matches!\n\nThe qualifying robot game matches are randomly assigned (and published) after robot inspection completes.\n\nPlenty of free\, onsite p arking\n\n--\n\nVolunteer Roles :\n\nSaturday Only Roles:\n\n Area Setup Manager (Pit\,  Inspection\,  A/V\,  Competition Fields\,  Queueing\,   Signs)\n\nSunday Only Roles:\n\n Game Queuer\, Lead Game Queuer\n Ref eree\n Emcee\, Game Announcer\n First Aid\n Errand Runner\n Area Clean up Manager (Pit\, Inspection\, A/V\, Competition Fields\, Queuing\, Signs) \n\nSaturday + Sunday Roles:\n\n Field Technical Advisor\n Pit Admin\n Robot Inspector\,  Lead Robot Inspector\n Judge Queuer\, Lead Judge Queu er\n Inspection Queuer\, Lead Inspection Queuer\n Judge\, Judge Advisor Assistant -  Can have a small number of judges for Saturday only or Sunda y only  [Note judges and judge advisor assistants can not be affiliated  with any NorCal FTC Team\, competing at this event or not]\n\n \; CATEGORIES:FTC LOCATION:Palo Alto High School\, 50 Embarcadero Rd\, Palo Alto\, CA \, 9430 1\, United States GEO:37.436304;-122.155401 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=50 Embarcadero Rd\, Palo Al to\, CA \, 94301\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Palo Alto High School:geo:37.436304,-122.155401 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR