www.beyondfirst.org

[Rich Kressly]

HS Students, College Students, Engineers, anyone with FIRST experience:

It only takes ablut 10 minutes to register and enter your basic resume information and make yourself available for internships and career opportunities through http://www.beyondfirst.org . Employers who value FIRST experience can also register and even post jobs at the site as well.

A direct link to FIRST scholarship opportunities is also there.

It's completely free and the only such service specifically for FIRST participants. It's one-stop-shopping for building your future. Register today!

[Rpifirst]

This is such a great idea I cant wait to use this a few years from now when i really need a job.

[miketwalker]

Wow, amazing job. I'm definitly going to try this out. I'm really glad someone organized this, great job. If you need any additional help I'd be glad to help, and I'm sure many members of the ChiefDelphi community would as well. Thanks again for setting this up. Great job. One suggestion I would like to make... on the signup with the "FIRST Team affiliation" there are multiple jobs that people can be associated with (I know I do programming, build, and webmaster for ComBBAT) yet it only allows you to pick one, should we use the other team affiliation spots to add the other categories?

[Beth Sweet]

Cybersonics, always a step ahead, I'll be forwarding this post to a couple of team members from last year. Thanks for the great work!

[Rich Kressly]

Thanks for the encouragemnent Bethie.

Mike, you can use addition teams to add "jobs" or use that nice big text box for additional information at the end of your entry. Use can also use an html tag to link to your full resume of website/portfolio located elsewhere on the web.

We'll be posting more helpful hints for use on the site after the holidays.

RPI - Why wait until you graduate? Who knows what internships are available out there right now.

Keep spreading the word gang!

[Jessica Boucher]

Good idea, if I do say so myself. A couple of suggestions:

-I love the design, very clean and straightforward. I don't need to scroll around the page...that's beautiful. But like most FIRSTers, I have acquired a short attention span and watching your quickmenu animations really made me think about skipping the whole site and moving on. If you could change your quickmenu animation so that the red bars move quicker or take them out altogether in the "close" part of the submenu that would make it rock even more.

-There needn't be three references to your team on the front page, it makes it look like it hasn't been touched since its creation. I have faith that members from other teams have signed up (as denoted by the replies), and if you want it to look like something that reaches beyond your team, ask one of these members to give a comment about the page, add a picture, or add some different news. Showing the page exists is the first step, but the second step is showing that other teams find it useful.

But other than that, I think its a great start. Good luck!

-Jessica B