NCaFLL Tournament
Team Pre-Tournament Checklist - What to Email ahead of time!
Newark HS Event Center
~ January 25, 2009
Updated
January 15, 2009 10:10 AM
What to do asap!:
- Pay tournament registration fee (link live now 1/11)
- Submit optional nominations for the Playing At Learning FLL Outreach, Outstanding Coach/Mentor and Outstanding FLL Volunteer Awards.
- 1/5/09 Self-Assign now live. Identify an adult volunteer (not the coach) from your team that is available for at least 4 hours of the tournament
day and have them sign up for a role via a self-assign form.
- Invite VIPs to 2pm reception in library
- Items to be emailed to teaminfo@playingatlearning.org - Please include your team number in subject line on all email:
1/13 update: #1 and #7 are most critical as these are used in the program book and need to be turned in to the printer - Reprieve given - Drop dead date is now Friday 1/16! Yeah!!! Posted a draft version (1/13, as of 3pm) for folks to look at for errors between now and then. Warning filesize is over 1MB.
Note - if you send Powerpoint, Word or other Microsoft Office files, please send only 2003 version of files (we don't have 2007 installed)
- Email team photo (in PNG, GIF or JPG) to teaminfo@playingatlearning.org
- Email robot picture (in PNG, GIF or JPG) to teaminfo@playingatlearning.org
- Email a one page 8.5"x11" team slide (preferred powerpoint, PDF also accepted) to teaminfo@playingatlearning.org Please do not add a background to the slide but instead if you want a background, add it as a image - the background will get removed when I consolidate the entire slide into one deck. Do not add any slideshow animations or effects. Please do not list full names of team members - first name only is fine. [1/8] Here are some examples written out in PDF format from 2006..
- 1/15 update Thank you Greg Lempko for creating an editable version of Team Profile. Email completed profile to teaminfo@playingatlearning.org.
- Email the specific climate issue that your team picked for their project and a project title to teaminfo@playingatlearning.org.
- Email an Emcee team intro as text to teaminfo@playingatlearning.org. This would be 1 to 3 fun facts about the team as well as any sponsors - please include a note if the team is a rookie team or if not, how many years that the team members have participated in FLL. This information that will be given to the emcee and team announcer.
- Email 60 words (or less) a team overview including items such as your robot's name (if there is one) and the team's project title or climate issue - this information will be published in a commemorative tournament program. If you list team member names, please do not include full names of team members - first name only is fine. Email as text to teaminfo@playingatlearning.org.