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**Countdown to Regional Champs Tournament!**

This event will take place Saturday, March 7th, at Monrovia High School. Please click here to see the roster of 42 teams and more event information. Please remember to pay your Fee of $300.00 before March 2nd.  Top 8 teams advance to WORLDS, next 12 advance to a PREMIER event. Please select your ADVANCEMENT PREFERENCES. Remember to upload your Compass Video no later than 3/2 (here) and engineering notebook (here), due no later than Thursday 3/5, 9pm.
Championship Tournament Countdown!

**MENTOR RECOGNITION AT REGIONAL CHAMPS**

**NEW THIS YEAR – MENTOR PARADE AT CHAMPS** Teams and mentors at Champs – this year we want to start the tradition of thanking our mentors with a Mentor Parade.  At Opening Ceremonies, we will have people holding posters with ‘1st year Mentor’, ‘2-5 year Mentor’  etc – outside of the venue. We will ask our mentors to stand next to the sign that describes your years of service and parade in front of our audience. FIRST starts with  our Mentors – we can’t do this without you!  We will give more details at the event. Remember to upload your Compass Video no later than 3/2 here.

Advancements from Championship – Preferencing

SoCal will be advancing 8 teams to Worlds and 12 teams to a Premier event. Per HQ BLOG – mentors need to select a preference order (more info here).
After Regional Champs on March 7, emails are sent to all advancing teams with instructions on how to submit their preferencing list in FTC Scoring. HQ also send emails to the next ~25% of teams encouraging them to make an event preference list in case teams ranked above them decline. Lead Coaches can log into FTC Scoring at any time and submit a ranked choice list of events they would like to attend. You do not have to wait until after their Regional Championship to submit your preference list!

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

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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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