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Pit footprints will be 10' x 10'.

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We will be running our terrific Visitor Program again this year - FIRST Stop.
To register: http://www.mdfirst.org/firststop.html
Encourage your visitors to sign up. The Ambassadors will make sure they find your team.

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We are excited that the Chesapeake Regional will be hosting a team social on Friday at the Comcast Center. More details to come on registering, times and food. We will be charging $5/pp for dinner.

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From the Senior Mentor Newsletter:

We are still looking for volunteers for the Chesapeake Regional on April 3-5. Specifically we are still looking for:

- Safety Advisors
- Field Reset/Repair (specifically for Thursday)
- Team queuing
- Crowd control
- Safety Glasses Attendant

If you know anyone who may be interested, please have them sign up in the VIMS.

Student Ambassadors: The Chesapeake Regional is recruiting Student Ambassadors to be gracious hosts to visitors to our FRC Regional competition. If you have students who enjoy meeting and talking with folks and sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm for FIRST robotics, we would lover to have them as Student Ambassadors for our FIRST Stop program! No experience required - we will have a short training session on Thursday of competition and students may sign up for a time slot on either Friday or Saturday or both.

Student singers: The Chesapeake Regional will be continuing its long standing tradition to have a group of students from many of the represented teams sing the National Anthem during opening ceremonies on both Friday and Saturday. The group will have several practices on Thursday to prepare.

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Email went out to all team leaders containing lots of info about the event, including Team Social, Student Ambassadors, Chesapeake Chorus, Team Showcase, Event Schedule - including early load in hours, lunch pre-orders, and our awesome visitor program - FIRST Stop - which makes every visitor a VIP.

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Jenny, I sent an email to a reliable source of volunteers at a local Lockheed site. Hopefully you get some assistance soon! If we get closer and still haven't filled the need, please contact me so I can speak with management about volunteer incentives.

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Thanks Jesse. We are in pretty good shape - just a few holes to be filled. Harder to get volunteers who can be there for all 3 days.

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Lots of info here:

http://www.mdfirst.org/programs/firs...-regional.html

Lunch pre-orders due March 24. http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...MDBA_Lunch.pdf

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Though I do miss having the Chesapeake regional at the Naval Academy, as a UMD student I really can't complain about the location this year.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there! I'll see if I can convince a couple of professors to drop by and watch a match or two.

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We have a partnership this year with Dr. David Tomblin and the Science, Technology and Society College Park Scholars Program and are welcoming many former FIRSTers as well as other students as volunteers. You will see them in various roles at the event.

Encourage your visitors to sign up for FIRST Stop. We will tailor their visitor to exactly what they want to see. http://www.mdfirst.org/firststop.html and some of the Ambassadors are UMD students.

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Excited to be a robot inspector this year!

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Team leaders should look for more info about the team social on Friday night which includes dinner - a bargain at $5.

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We're going to have all of our students go to it but I'm not sure that it is for adults also. I'd hate to tell all of the mentors and parents to go only to find out that they're the only people above 20 yrs of age there. :o We should have about 40 or so students plus adults. We'll sign up by Tuesday.
Thanks for being so informative about this regional.

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Team 1629 GaCo, is looking forward to returning to the Chesapeake regional. We cannot wait for the chance to compete against old friends and making new ones along the way! We hope everyone has safe travels next week, and good luck!

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I think there will be quite a few people over the age of 20 there.

Reserve your tickets as soon as you can. We are limiting the number of people.