**FIRST EMAIL**/Week One/Event Reminders

[Mark McLeod]

Greetings Teams:

And they’re off…The time has come - this Thursday, March 3rd kicks off Week One of the FRC 2011 competition events! Best of luck to all of our FRC Teams!

Email Blasts each TUESDAY during event season: Please note that in an effort to get important information out to teams in a timely fashion during the competition season, we will send out our weekly email blasts on Tuesdays instead of each Thursday. Don’t forget to check your email and the News & Email Blasts Page (http://usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/...starchive.aspx) early and often for the latest FRC News!

Team Rosters and Consent & Release Forms: With Week One upon us, we must remind everyone to print out your Team Roster! When you go to register at your Initial Event, you will be asked to produce your Team Roster along with any hard-copy Consent & Release forms attached to the Roster itself. Without these items, you will not be allowed to register for your event!

Remember: Even if none of your student team members filled out an Electronic Consent and Release form, you must still print out your Team Roster and physically pencil in the names of the students who have hard-copies of the form. If you cannot pencil in all the student names in to the space allotted on the printed Team Roster, you may attach an additional sheet with the rest of the student names. Also, don’t forget that each Mentor on the team must have completed a hard-copy or electronic version of the Consent and Release Form in order to gain entrance in to the event!

Do you have everything? As you’re packing up to go to your initial event, keep in mind that there will be no replacement Shipping Documents available. If you forget your Shipping Documents (i.e.,Bill of Lading for shipment to your next event), you will need to find a way to retrieve them before the event is over in order to avoid paying out of pocket for the shipment. If you have lost your shipping documents, please make arrangements at the shipping desk in the Pit area to pay for your shipment home.

Other Event Reminders:

• Don’t forget your Safety Glasses! As most of you know, everyone is required to wear Safety Glasses at all times in the Pit area. When you are packing up to go to your Event(s), please remember to pack Safety Glasses for every Student and Mentor who will be in the Pit area. FIRST has only a limited supply of extra Safety Glasses on hand, so we appreciate your efforts to supply enough Safety Glasses for your entire team!
• Respect boundaries in the Pit area! Please be respectful of your fellow FRC teams by being aware of how much space your team is using in order to allow adequate workspace for your neighboring teams, and to ensure overall safety for everyone. We appreciate your Gracious Professionalism™!
• Lost and Found Items: All Lost and Found items get packed on our trucks and come back to FIRST headquarters. All lost item requests will be addressed after the Championship Event in April (when all trucks are back in Manchester, NH).
• Website Award electronic certificates: All Regional Website Award winners and teams who earned the Website Excellence Award will be sent electronic certificates post Championship. These are for placement on winning teams’ websites.

Go Teams!