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Southern California
FIRST ® Tech Challenge!

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**2026-2027 Season Around the Corner!**

The 2026-2027 Season is around the corner! Save your calendars for September 12th, 2026 – kickoff of BIOBUZZ presented by RTX. FIRST Tech Challenge teams will use engineering skills to amplify the excitement and energy found within the natural world. Registration opens soon!

WESTERN EDGE PREMIER EVENT (WEPE) Long Beach CA, May 28-31

Congratulations to the 12 SoCal teams attending Western Edge Premier Event! Keep track of the Event here.
  6371  Machine Kings
           14295  Operation T.A.C.
16321  X Drive
17600  Moval Robotics
19198  Roborunners
20331  BISON BOTS
22082  Ziptide
22676  UNIverse
23441  CSK DEVELOP3RS
23564  Engineers in Action
27299  Samotech Cyberquakes
30099  OmicronX
32234  LeXT–Raspberry Huh?

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – May 28,29,30 Long Beach!

The Western Edge Premier Event will host an 88 team, field tournament. To support such a large-scale event, we needs volunteers. Inspectors needed Thursday 3:30pm-6pm (May 28) and Friday 7am-10am. Judges needed Friday 3pm – 7pm, all day Saturday and some needed to stay Sunday 8-12. Referees needed Friday and Saturday all day, some refs for Sunday 8-1:30pm. **Student roles are also available!** We need Querers, pit runners and field reset (all day Friday and Saturday, plus some on Sunday until noon). Send your team and you can volunteer together!
Check out the website here and scroll to the bottom to register. Per California Assembly Bill and FIRST CA, volunteers 18 and older need to be AB506 cleared – steps are here.

SoCal FTC Registration is closed for the 2025-2026 season.

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Thank you, regional sponsor!

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Important Information

For the upcoming season, we have launching event registration, with invitations going to mentors. Watch your email!

For new teams, please email info@socalftc.org to get oriented, connected with your League, and welcomed. Want to connect with other SoCal FTC teams? Join us on Discord!

FIRST®

Through a progression of team-based robotics challenges, FIRST® helps young people discover a passion for STEM.

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FTC

FIRST® Tech Challenge students learn to think like engineers. Teams design, build, and program robots to compete.

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Volunteer

It takes many people to run each competition. We are always in need of volunteers from committee members to referees and judges.

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Sponsor

It costs over $500,000 to run the region and all of our teams for a year. Do you want to help support our SoCal FTC program?

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