Get Involved and Stay in Touch

We hope that you enjoyed the Kickoff of DECODE™ presented by RTX! If you missed the broadcast, you can check it out on the FIRST^® Tech Challenge YouTube page.

It’s not too late to register a team to participate in the 2025-2026 season! You can find grant opportunities on our Team Grants webpage. Your local partner may know of other funding opportunities specific to your region. And there’s more information in the FIRST^® fundraising toolkit.

We also want to make sure teams know how to stay in touch with FIRST during the season. If email delivery and open rates drop too low, automated or bulk emails can be marked as spam or just not delivered. To help avoid this, FIRST routinely cleans up our email distribution lists to make sure that emails reach intended receivers. 

As a reminder, anyone over the age of 18 can opt-in to receive the Team Blasts for any FIRST program by completing the form on this subscription page. You can also subscribe to other types of emails by following the instructions in this blog post from last year.

In case you missed it in Team Blasts, here are some upcoming (and one past) important dates. (All items open/close at 12:00 pm (noon) eastern time unless otherwise specified.)