Professional Tip.

[Boydean]

Originally Posted by keehun

Team 2502 assigns every one of their students/mentors with a first.last@team2502.com

Captains who set it up bypassed last name.

We also use that email address and password as a backend for an OpenID service where we use it to authenticate our forums. With that, we have email and forum working in same authentication table.

Thanks to Google Apps free edition.

Our team does the same. Staple members (team captain, mentors, PR group) has team email addresses that go on their business cards. We also took it a step further and setup a Google Voice account for the coach. This enables a easy transfer of 'power and communications' to another person in the time of crisis (that is if you look beyond the fact Google Voice number is free, therefore might disappear at any moment).