**FIRST EMAIL**/FIRST President Paul Gudonis Announces New Initiative - The President

[Pavan Dave]

**FIRST EMAIL**/FIRST President Paul Gudonis Announces New Initiative - The President's Circle

Those of you who attended the 2007 Championship Closing Ceremonies or watched them on NASA TV/webcast will recall that FIRST President Paul Gudonis, in conjunction with Chad Hurley, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of YouTube, made an exciting announcement about the formation of his President's Circle. For those of you who missed the announcement or do not recall the details, please see the transcript at: http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...t.aspx?id=5382

As May 1st is coming fast, we want to provide you with the following key information so you can be ready to "get in the game!"*

• Paul's video will be posted at 1:00 pm EDT on May 1st, 2007;
• The URL to view the video will be both emailed to you prior to May 1st, and posted on our website;
• Watch the video all the way through for full instructions on the challenge;
• Deadline for submitting your video is May 30th, 2007 at 5:00 pm EDT.
• Criteria for Submission: In order to participate, a team must have successfully recruited and started at least one (1) other FRC team.

We encourage all of you that qualify to participate, however, we encourage you NOT to start creating a video until after the guidelines are posted.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at frcteams@usfirst.org.

Go Teams!