Volunteer staffing for the 2007 FIRST Regional season

[David55]

Originally Posted by Meli W.

This may be slightly off topic, who exactly gets picked for volunteering for the Israel regional? Is it just a select group of people or will they take non-FIRST staff yet?

At the moment, I'm only able to be attending the Manchester, NH regional provided that I leave as soon as the awards are over to hop over to Boston and Fly out.

From March 4th to May 10th I'm going to be in Namibia for school, however I was able to find cheap flights (well a lot cheaper than flying from the US) into Israel from there surrounding those dates. I already hate that I have to miss most of the local regionals so this could be a good option for me.

I don't know how it will be this year, but last year at the Israeli regional they were in desperate need for volunteers. It got to the point that each team was asked to provide 2-3 students that were volunteers for the 3 days (field reset, setting up, queuing etc.) and the teams were also the ones that took apart the field after the regional. I am sure any help would be appreciated by the organizers. I would suggest speaking to Alisha Wallenstein who is the regional director (at the moment I don't have her email.) Also, I am sure you can speak to Greg Needel or Jon Mittleman (Jon236) and they will be able to tell you about their experience with coming to the Israeli regional.

David