Mission Mayhem 2008

[Arefin Bari]

Hello Teams,

First off all, congratulations on another amazing FIRST season. As teams are getting ready to participate in offseason projects and competitions; we invite you to come join us at Mission Mayhem 2008. It's a great opportunity for new members to get a taste of a FIRST competition is like; also let your new drive team get some practice in.

This offseason will have a full FIRST field which will take place on September 26th and 27th of 2008. September 26th will be more of a practice day where the committee and volunteers will start putting together the field during the day. Teams are more than welcome to come and help and afterwards some practice matches will be ran. September 27th is when we will have qualifying matches and elimination matches.

- Mission Mayhem will be taking place at Stranahan High School (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida); home of the Platinum Dragons; Team 1345.

- Registration fee is $300.

- There is a tentative social planned for Friday night for all the teams, volunteers participating as well.

- If any teams have a practice robot that a pre-rookie team can borrow, it will be much appreciated.

- Please email me at Arefin.bari@gmail.com to pre-register your team. Pre-registration is open until May 25th. An invoice will be sent out to you later on for payments. You can also pre-register your team by going to www.missionmayhem.org (Team Registration tab). Hotel information, Agenda, Restaurants, Awards pages will be updated in the next week.

- Just like every year, here is a little contest for all the teams out there. There are many engineers, teachers, mentors, and parents who spend a lot of time with your team. They inspire you everyday and motivate you to be the best. This year at Mission Mayhem, we will recognize one mentor for his/her commitment to the team which will be called the “Mission Mayhem Mentor Award.” I would like to also extend this offer out to all the teams who participates in FIRST; even if you are not attending Mission Mayhem. We will have a submission page on the website, where you can enter your submission.

- If you would like to volunteer for the event, please fill out the form on the website and we will get in touch with you soon.

Thank you to the hosting teams (team 1251 and team 1345). I hope to see you all soon.