This article was last edited for content on 1/21/2010 at 8:07pm [Updatedtournament program draft link]
To the 48 teams advancing to the Championship- Congratulations!
NEW 1/19: What to Expect page posted – includes link to detailed team schedule by pit number.
Team Status Page is available and will have columns for each item below shortly…
First priority – Please tell us if the team has decided not to participate in the championship. Each year we have teams that do decide not to come. Please just tell us – I don’t like having to repeatedly call or email you but I will. Earlier is better. If the issue is cost, let us know as we have need-based grants to help. Thank you – all teams now have paid!
DEADLINE is NOW – Need to finish up tournament program book! for the first 4 items, earlier is better. These items are the most important as they will be in the tournament program and the program goes out to print earlier than the other items. For those that need an idea on how these things were used last year, please take a look at last year’s tournament program
Updated: 1/21 FINAL DRAFT TEAM PAGES (PDF) Tournament Program
Here are the items to E-MAIL only to teaminfo@playingatlearning.org – Please include your team number in all correspondence. Please do not copy other playingatlearning.org email addresses like jillw or fll or marke or info.
- Item 1. Email team photo (in PNG, GIF or JPG)
- Item 2. Email robot picture (in PNG, GIF or JPG)
- Item 3. Confirm if the entire team (as in all team members individually) is in their first year of FLL (Rookie year)
- Item 4. Email as text, ~50 words (or less) a team overview including items such as any team sponsors, your robot’s name (if there is one) and the team’s project title or transportation issue – this information will be published in the tournament program. If you list team member names, please do not include full names of team members – first name only is fine.
DEADLINE Monday, January 24th for items 5-10 ; items 11 and 12 are optional.
Note – if you send Powerpoint, Word or other Microsoft Office files, prefer if you send 2003 version of files (I don’t like 2007 versions)
Items 5-8, 11 and 12 are E-MAIL to teaminfo@playingatlearning.org – Please include your team number in all correspondence. Please do not copy other playingatlearning.org email addresses like jillw or fll or marke or info.
- Item 5. Email a one page 8.5″x11″ team slide (preferred MS powerpoint, PDF also accepted). 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. 2009 version.
- Item 6. Email soft copy of Team Profile.
- Item 7. Email as inline text (or if you must, a MS Word doc), a project title and a short project abstract explaining the specific challenge issue that your team picked for their project – this should be very short (like a sentence or two, max). These will be handed to the project judges and also available for in the project kiosk areas.
- Item 8. Email an Emcee team intro as text. This would be 1 to 3 fun items 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
- Item 9: Physical mail via postal mail (or upload via Vimeo or similar online video sharing service or uploaded on your site that we can download – do not use YouTube as we are not able to download), a MPEG file of a “good” recording of the team’s project presentation – you are responsible for the sound and video quality. Please do not send us a DVD formatted video – we need this in a file format (like avi or mp4 or similar) – you can burn the file on a DVD physical media or CD media.
- Item 10. 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 the General/Team Volunteer self-assign link
- Item 11 Optional: invite up to 3 VIPs to 1:30-2:30 pm dessert reception in library- please let us know who is coming! VIPs include school board members, school adminstrators, teachers, elected officials and media.
- Item 12 Optional: Submit nominations for the Playing At Learning FLL Outreach, Outstanding Coach/Mentor and Outstanding FLL Volunteer Awards.
- Finally – Prepare your team for Kids Choice Awards! More info here