**FIRST EMAIL**/Awards, Judges Info, and Additional Payment Deadline Approaching

[Mark McLeod]

Greetings Teams:

Remember to check the Calendar of Important Deadlines for award date submissions for the season.

Awards Submissions
FIRSTAwards.org is now open. Submissions for the Website Design Award, the Chairman’s Award, and the Woodie Flowers Award are entered here. Additionally, Hall of Fame teams should submit their information.

Judges' Info
The Judge's Information Section in the Team Information Management System (TIMS) is your opportunity to share valuable information about your team with FIRST. The data collected helps FIRST track important statistics such as how much it costs your team to participate in the competition, team population (e.g., male/female students, number of teachers on the team) and class breakdown (freshmen, sophomore, etc..,) to name a few. This information is helpful in FIRST's efforts to procure funding.
This information (in particular the Team Essays section information) is also used by the Judges at the Regional and Championship events to learn about your team's history, goals, strengths and the challenges it may have overcome. Judges take this information into consideration, along with the interviews done in the Pit, when making decisions about team awards, so we encourage you all to complete these sections!
We also encourage you to include a photo of your robot, not only does this help the judges to remember your team during the discussions, we may use the robot photos you submit for the Awards Ceremonies.

Payment Deadlines
Payment for additional Regionals is due on or before February 1, 2008.

Go Teams!