**FIRST EMAIL**/FLL to FRC Participants!

[Mark McLeod]

Greetings FRC Teams!

Did you "graduate" from the FIRST LEGO League to your FRC team? Would you say that FLL influenced your decision to join FRC? If so, we want to hear from you!

Many of you may remember last year we began collecting stories of team members who started in FLL and then moved on to FRC. This time, we want to hear specifically how FLL has impacted the decisions you have made - from joining FRC to what you plan to do after high school to your career goals. We want to know more of those amazing stories of how FLL has changed your life!

If you meet the following criteria, please let us know!
1) You participated in FLL.
2) You would say your involvement in FRC is a direct result of your participation in FLL.
3) You would say your future education and career goals changed as a direct result of your participation in FLL.

If you meet that criteria, e-mail FLLteams@usfirst.org with your name, your FRC team number, what regional you are attending, and a brief summary of how FLL has impacted you. With the information sent in, we want to use it to highlight you! This may be as a spotlight on you in the FIRST newsletter or we may send a camera to your regional and tape an interview with you! We know there are many amazing stories out there and we think the public should know.

If you know of previous FRC team members or perhaps your mentors who participated in FLL and have since graduated from high school and are in college or in their career, please pass this along to them as well.

We hope to hear from you. Please send in all responses as soon as possible, but no later than March 7, 2008.

Go Teams!