**FIRST EMAIL**/Senior Mentor Call - August 20, 2008

[KathieK]

E-mail Blast from FIRST out to teams this afternoon:

Greetings FLL Teams:

The FIRST Senior Mentors are pleased to announce they will be hosting
the first in a series of important Teleconference calls for all FLL Team
Coaches beginning this *Wednesday, August 20, at 7 pm EST.*

*Coach Orientation, 101* provides a introductory (or a refresher review)
on "FLL Coaching basics". This session includes an overview of the FLL
program, tips on shaping a team toward successfully meeting
program goals and objectives, and toward finding resources that can make
the coaching job easy, productive, and fun!

The Coach Orientation, 101 call will be led by Senior Mentor Sally
Sylvester, a hardened FLL veteran coach from Virginia. (contact Sally at ...)Providing assistance
will be Senior Mentor Steve Cremer, Boston, also a wily FLL & FTC Team
coach (reach Steve at...)
and FLL Partner Services Manager Karen Burnett-Kurie.

All team coaches are welcome. The call in number is XXXX and
the 7-digit access code is xxxxxxx. We will have 100 lines available, so
lines are on a first come, first served basis. The call will be recorded
and available for replay at the link:
http://www.usfirst.org/community/fll...nt.aspx?id=788.

We highly recommend that you bring your 2008/2009 FLL Coaches Handbook
with you to this call. If you do not yet have your copy, the first
three chapters can be downloaded from the link at:
http://www.usfirst.org/community/fll...nt.aspx?id=788

*Please Join Us!*

Again, all team coaches & mentors are welcome, especially those attached
to rookie teams.


The FIRST Senior Mentors

[KathieK]

Thank you to all the mentors who joined in last week with lots of questions and lots of suggestions! We quickly filled our limit of 100 lines. Be watching this forum for announcements of upcoming calls - our next call is scheduled for August 28.

[KathieK]

To download the recording from this call, visit the FIRST website at: http://www.usfirst.org/community/fll....aspx?id=10054