2012 South Florida Regional

[KathieK]

Jack in the Hat and I are excited to be traveling down from Connecticut to volunteer at the inaugural South Florida Regional in Boca Raton! Who else will be coming?

[techtiger1]

Team 1251 will be one of the hometown host teams and will be at the regional in full force. We are glad to have a new regional so close to us. If anyone has any questions regarding the area around or specifics about the event please feel to respond in this thread or pm me. Looking forward to the inaugural South Florida Regional.

[EricS-Team180]

Originally Posted by techtiger1

We are glad to have a new regional so close to us.

Us too!...we're ~1hr away! SPAM is looking forward to coming down and mixing it up with you guys!

[Sayrah]

I'll be there greeting all the teams in the queue line! First, Orlando!

[torihoelscher]

Krunch will be there too!! I am very excited!

[AlexD744]

744 and I are all really excited for this event! FAU is only 20 minutes from our school so now we have a home turf too!

[KathieK]

We're excited to be meeting the Florida teams!

Would there be any interest for attending a NEMO (Non-Engineering Mentor Organization) meeting? If enough mentors show an interest I will ask the planning committee if we can procure a room. For those of you not familiar with NEMO, visit our website, www.firstnemo.org.

[Barry Bonzack]

I'll be volunteering at the South Florida regional. Glad to hear you're coming down, Kathie! Jack too. I'd go to the NEMO meeting.

[KathieK]

It's been confirmed and all teams have been notified - there will be a NEMO meeting at the South Florida Regional!

The following announcement went out from the Regional Director:

What: NEMO (Non-Engineering Mentor Organization) Mingle
When: Thursday, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. (You are encouraged to come and go as your schedule dictates).
Where: Volunteer lounge on second floor
Who: This meeting is open to any adult, including any mentors, parents, administrators and sponsors, both technical and non-technical!

This will be an opportunity to meet and network with your fellow NEM's. We will be discussing NEMO resources and will have an open discussion, addressing any immediate concerns brought by the group.

I’m excited to be joining the volunteer crew for the inaugural South Florida Regional and look forward to meeting the mentors at the NEMO meeting. Please share this announcement with the mentors on your teams!
~Kathie Kentfield, Director, NEMO
FIRST Senior Mentor, Connecticut


About NEMO: For 8 years the Non-Engineering Mentor Organization has been a support group and information exchange for those adult mentors who help teams as part of the FIRST programs, including JrFLL/FLL/FTC/FRC. NEMO has a central clearinghouse for information. NEMs on teams help with all the behind-the-scenes-glue holding the teams together including mentor recruitment and retention, travel, hotels, meals, parent involvement, fundraising, business plans, public relations, community service, team building and logistics. NEMs help build a team so the team can build a robot. Our membership has grown to over 600 mentors in FIRST!

Joining NEMO: Visit www.firstnemo.org to find out how to join NEMO and the private online forum. There are no dues to join. Visit the "Resources" page to see all the papers written by NEMO members.

[Dan Richardson]

I'll be there! I'm looking forward to the first official South Florida competition. I'm just glad that it's indoors where it cant be touched by hurricane feeder bands like some of the off season comps of yesteryear!

Can't wait to see everyone!

[wendymom]

HI Everyone:

IF you are looking for a fun Spring Break activity, come to Boca for the S. Florida Regional and volunteer!!!!

We still need a few great people to help us out.

Thanks
Wendy

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Sayrah

I'll be there greeting all the teams in the queue line! First, Orlando!

Good luck.
Bring a sense of humor.

[dodar]

Pit Map was released a few days ago. Cant wait to see how the inaugural South Florida Regional is gonna be; pretty cool too that we are located next to one of the northern teams heading down. It's also really cool that that same team, I think Team 1735, is also going to be webcasting the regional.

[wendymom]

Subject:
FRC South Florida regional


The inaugural South Florida FRC regional is coming up next weekend, and we could really use your help getting the word out. If you're active online, would you mind taking a few seconds to flex your social network?


Are you on Facebook?
Like our page: http://on.fb.me/firstinflorida

What about Twitter?
Follow us here (http://bit.ly/firstinfltweet) then blast out the following 140-character message:
The inaugural @SouthFloridaFRC regional is less than ten days away! Get your robot on in sunny Boca Raton. http://bit.ly/firstinfl

Live in the South Florida area?
Score a (free) ticket to the event next weekend: http://bit.ly/firstinflevent
Or apply for one of the remaining volunteer spots at our website: http://bit.ly/firstinfl


We're very grateful for any support you can give to this event and look forward to seeing you soon.

Sincerely,
The South Florida FRC regional planning committee

[dodar]

Webcast link: http://www.wpi.edu/news/firstregiona...-livefeed.html