**FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Team Mentor Teleconference 102

[Mark McLeod]

Greetings FRC Teams:

Mark your Calendars! The FIRST Senior Mentors are pleased to announce they will be hosting the second in a series of important Teleconference calls for FRC Team Mentors and Coaches this coming Thursday, September 25 at 7 pm EST.

FRC Mentor Orientation, 102: Choosing a Competition provides useful considerations and guidelines for making selections and registering for a regional, or regionals, for the new robotics season. This call will be hosted by Senior Mentor Roy Menton Upper New York State with assistance from Senior Mentor Jessica Jankowitsch of Pittsburgh.

We suggest that you bring along you copy of the 2009 Regional Competition schedule as posted at : http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...ts.aspx?id=430 to the call.

All team coaches are welcome. The call in number is 1-800-503-2899. The Access number is 6663906.

We will have 150 lines available, so lines are on a "first come, first served" basis. The call will also be recorded and available for replay at: http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc....aspx?id=10124
A copy of the call outline FRC Mentor Orientation, 102 can also be downloaded from this page.

Once you have accessed the the conference call line, please put your phone on "mute" by pressing " * 6 ". Whenever you wish to speak, press " * 7 " to unmute your line and converse with the speaker.

If your phone has a separate "mute" key, you may press that key to mute your microphone element at all times, except when you wish to speak.

New for this season is the FIRST Senior Mentor Hotline. This hotline provides an effective means and opportunity for teams, coaches, and mentors to direct their questions, and to quickly obtain information and/or to request other assistance from FIRST Senior Mentors. All correspondence and inquiries should be addressed to FIRSTseniormentors@usfirst.org.

Please Join Us!

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

The FIRST Senior Mentors