**FIRST EMAIL**/Senior Mentor Call Tuesday, November 17th/Unrestricted Event Registra

[Mark McLeod]

Greetings Teams:

Call Topic:

Chairman’s Award: "Why everyone should submit a chairman’s entry and how to prepare for that as well; preparing your team for judging." We are pleased to offer this call for the second time this season. We apologize for the difficulties encountered in the last call.

*Please note there are only 150 lines open for these calls, first come first serve. All calls are recorded.

Hosted by:

Senior Mentor Fredi Lajvardi, AZ, partnered with Wendy Trommer, Program Coordinator FIRST Robotics Competition staff, and:

1. Allen Bancroft – FRC Lead Judge Advisor, Judge since 2001 with 15 events experience
2. Cynthia Stong – FRC Lead Judge Advisor, judge since 2003 with 19 events experience
3. Jeff Crosby – Judge Advisor and Championship Chairman’s Judge, judge since 2001
and CMP Chairman’s judge since 2004, 21 events experience
4. Dr. Barbara Sanders – Championship Chairman’s Judge, judge since 1998, CMP Chairman’s Judge since 2003, 20 events experience

When:
Tuesday, November 17th, at 7:00pm EST

How:
(Main Contacts have this, or PM me)



Agenda:

o What’s new this year
o Written submission – How to make it more effective
o Interview process
o Tips for Success
o Question and Answer period

Unrestricted Event Registration
A reminder that Unrestricted Event Registration is open now until November 30th See what regional spots are still available at http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...ts.aspx?id=430!!

Go Teams!

[Karibou]

I listened in for the first call, and I thought that it was VERY helpful. I'm going to be one of the students from our team that is presenting, and I was pretty much clueless about the entire process before listening to this. I have a very good idea of what to expect now [:

If you can get one of those 150 lines, I definitely suggest doing so.

[rsisk]

Second what Kara said.

Jeff Crosby does a really good job of describing the RCA process from the judges point of view. And Fredi also has some great tips from the other side of the RCA presentation.

Definitely listen in if you have the opportunity.

[RoboMom]

Wow. This is quite the line up; from the longtime coordinator of the process, to the judge advisors, and from an award winning team perspective. Kudos to FIRST and the Senior Mentors for opening up the phones to help the teams navigate this process.

[ebarker]

How long does it take for the recordings to be posted ?

Ed

[Mo_Shen]

What about rookie teams? Do we need to make presentation for Rookie all star too?

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by Mo_Shen

What about rookie teams? Do we need to make presentation for Rookie all star too?

Anything is subject to change this year, but in past year's Rookie Teams could (and in the case of NASA Grants had to) submit through the online Chairman's application process. Rookie teams do not present in a formal style like other teams do for Chairman's.

The judges will come .at least once, and perhaps multiple times throughout the weekend. Each of these visits is your opportunity to "present". If you did submit something online, you will want to have a printed copy to give to the judges at this time.

[RoboMom]

This call was very well done. Lots of great advice.
Unfortunately it sounds like they were not successful in recording.
Maybe someone took "official" notes.