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

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Ugh... I don't like that criteria for submission... we've tried very hard, with no avail to start another team. Too bad it doesn't count for FVC teams... we've got at least 3 on the way.

[Stephi Rae]

Originally Posted by Budda648

Ugh... I don't like that criteria for submission... we've tried very hard, with no avail to start another team. Too bad it doesn't count for FVC teams... we've got at least 3 on the way.

Yeah. We're a rookie team and we're starting at least 4 FLL teams and possibly one or two FVC teams to go along with the one we already have, but the schools in our district are both not very well off in the money department, and it's pretty hard to find people interested. Our school is a math/science magnet school, the only one in our district, so we tend to attract almost everyone who might be interested in this type of thing... tough stuff... we were looking forward to this challenge too... we might make one just for fun and then use it for our own recruitment purposes... depending on the actual challenge of course.

[artdutra04]

I can't wait to see until the "kickoff" video is released; I've been looking for a good excuse for a while to film a new promotional film for our team, as the last one I made explicitly as a team promotional film was from the 2005 season.

// Me thanks team mentors and alumni for starting team 1071 in 2003...

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Budda648

Ugh... I don't like that criteria for submission... we've tried very hard, with no avail to start another team. Too bad it doesn't count for FVC teams... we've got at least 3 on the way.

Isnt the video supposed to be about starting an FRC team ? Vex teams are great to start...but i think starting an FRC team is a tad more challenging.

I mean NO DISRESPECT whatsoever to VEX with this post.