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2007-08 FIRST Consent Form Overview

Before your team can attend a FIRST event, everyone must fill out a FIRST Consent Form (click here to download and print the form). The form included here is the only acceptable FIRST form for the 2008 FRC events. Remember to bring competed forms for all the persons (students, mentors, parents, school officials, volunteers) on your team, to your initial competition event. For many teams, this will be the Kickoff Event on January 5, 2008. 

FIRST has revised the Consent and Release Form with several goals in mind:

1. simplifying the process by creating a unified form
2. collecting participant data to make it possible to conduct more effective outreach and marketing to alumni;
3. and give FIRST the capacity to conduct regular follow-up studies of its participants in order to better demonstrate impact.

This information is critical to FIRST because it will provide a roadmap for the organization, guide program implementation and management, and communicate more confidently the impact to schools, sponsors and other groups. In order for FIRST to quantitatively state that our programs are positively impacting participating students, corporations, schools and communities we need to collect information on the individual level. The Consent Forms are the only place where FIRST collects this type of information.

The goal of the FIRST Consent Forms is to ensure the following:

• To get consent and release of liabilities due to harm and/or injury for FIRST and FIRST’s “Cooperating Entities”
• To grant FIRST the right to use participant’s likeness during the participation in FIRST events
• To ensure that agents of FIRST and on behalf of FIRST can collect and analyze information for us
• To grant FIRST the right to contact the Parent/Guardian and participants at a later time for evaluation and/or announce other benefits like alumni outreach efforts
• Because we are dealing with youth and youth information, FIRST must be in compliance with the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (under the age 13) and the Canadian Online Protection Act