Resources and more for Event Partners | July EP Update

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View this email in your browser JULY 2021   Don't forget to register for the Virtual REC Foundation Summit! Event Partners, Team Coaches, and Mentors are invited to the Virtual REC Foundation Summit (formerly the EP Summit) on July 20-22, 2021. Join us as we continue the tradition of providing an interactive space for presentations, training, and discussions to help you make the most of the 2021-2022 competition season.  Register now View agenda Event Partner Mark Ahrens named 2021 Amazon Future Engineer of the Year Award Recipient Congratulations to Mark Ahrens (EP and Computer Science & Robotics teacher in Texarkana, TX) on receiving the 2021 Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Award! We are so proud of his impactful work in the robotics community and dedication to students. Thank you for all you do, Mark! Read article VRC Virtual Skills Update Python has been released for VRC Virtual Skills! Registered teams with access to VR Skills can now convert a Blocks Project to Python or start a new project in Python.   From the VEX Robotics Knowledge Base Python Tutorials for VRC Virtual Skills are now available on VEX Robotics' Knowledge Base! Share with teams to keep them engaged and practicing for the 2021-2022 Competition Season. View article Register for Google's Girl Powered VEX Robotics Workshop Encourage teams to join Team 315 Paradigm at the India Community Center in Milpitas, CA for their fourth annual Girl Powered VEX Robotics Workshop for  MS & HS girls! The two-day workshop allows girls ages 12+ to form teams to design and build a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. Robotics kits, boxed lunches & snacks will be provided. Learn more and register Congratulations to our Online Challenge winners! We are proud to announce the winners for our final round of our 2020-2021 Season Online Challenges! Great job to all the students who participated this season. We're looking forward to 2021-2022 Season Online Challenges opening in the fall of 2021. View winners 2021 Live Remote VEX Worlds awards and participation medals have started to ship! These will be mailed to the official address that is listed in the recipient's RobotEvents.com account. We will be sending these out over the next couple of weeks and thank you in advance your patience. Benton County Fair VRC Signature Event August 2-4, 2021 | Sauk Rapids, MN Teams can still register for this Signature Event at the Benton County Fair! The competition will take place Aug. 2-4, and the Fair will remain open until the 8th.    Learn more & register The VEX U and VEX AI Championships were held on June 25 - 26, 2021 at IFI’s headquarters in Greenville, Texas. The blended in-person/remote event brought VEX U and VEX AI teams from all over the world together to celebrate the culmination of the competition season. Great job to all teams that came out to participate and congratulations to our 2020-21 VEX U & VEX AI Champions! View winners Dan Mantz in Forbes | 14 Valuable Lessons Nonprofit Leaders Learned From The Past Year WDEL | Brandywine Bots robotics team competes in world championship event Henry County Times | Ola Middle’s VEX Robotics Team brings home championship Loudoun Times-Mirror | Local students place fourth in global robotics competition Kettering University | VEX at Kettering Copyright © 2021 REC Foundation, All rights reserved. You joined our list when you registered your team and/or registered for an REC Foundation event. Our mailing address is: REC Foundation 1519 Interstate 30 W Greenville, TX 75402 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.