**FIRST EMAIL**/Deadline to Submit Electronic Consent & Release Form

[Jon236]

Originally Posted by Fe_Will

Or maybe are they going to take my info and distribute, sell and/or spam me to death...

Hopefully they will use the database to help improve communication with FIRSTers and to try and stay in touch as kids graduate. I believe that FIRST is trying to track alumni to better measure it's impact. This would be an initial, and I believe welcome, step.

[Andrew Schuetze]

Originally Posted by Jon236

Hopefully they will use the database to help improve communication with FIRSTers and to try and stay in touch as kids graduate. I believe that FIRST is trying to track alumni to better measure it's impact. This would be an initial, and I believe welcome, step.

This is exactly my same opinion. As a former coach for 499 Toltechs and now a parent with two sons on 2745, I see the electronic option as interesting as I had tons of paperwork to distribute and collect every year. I would be inclinded to sit all the kids down in front of a computer at a team meeting and knock as much of this out as possible that way. The parent part is something new and I am not yet researched as to what is needed / required.

How many veterans remember getting students to register online for a season badge with a lanyard? As soon as the kids started receiving them in the mail, they were wearing them around school akin to some type of merit badge. I wonder what the costs were to produce and mail those out?