ULTIMATE GOAL Coach Email Volume 7 11/24/20 some great virtual things coming up
Happy Holidays!
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I hope you are all able to relax, enjoy the holiday and stay safe.
Here is what I have for you today:
- Coaches Chat Tuesday, Dec 8 at 7:00 pm
- FTC Virtual Pits Saturday, Dec 5 at 11:00 am
Coaches Chat Tuesday, December 8, 7:00 pm
Please join us for our next coaches chat on Tuesday, December 8 at 7:00 pm. We want this to be a conversation where you share your ideas and work together as a group. To keep it productive, we would love for you to fill out this form with a topic you would like to focus on. We will plan to spend some time in this meeting talking about what things look like for our remote events and get some feedback from all of you.
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FTC Virtual PIts, Saturday December 5 at 11:00 am
We have been working on virtual pits at the FRC level and it is a huge success! Because of that, we would like to now offer it for FTC teams as well. We would appreciate you forwarding this info to your students and mentors as we don’t have a way to directly contact them. This experiment is being watched across the FIRST world to see if this is something worth replicating across FRC and FTC. You are helping define a new thing in the FIRST world. Awesome! We expect a lot of visitors from other areas of the country at this event. Help us show them how great it can be!
We will run the pits again from 11am to 12:30PM on Saturday 12/5/20 and I would encourage more students to attend. Also, please have your team consider signing up for a pit room at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/7328214b558d4f8abc4e264f779e8801
A couple of changes for this weekend based on feedback from our first VP
1) Visitors expressed that they missed the ‘start’ of the discussion in some of the pits, so they were coming in late to the conversation. We would like to try doing a 10 minute interval where your team specific conversation might start over every 10 minutes for about the first hour. Every 10 minutes we will send out a chat blast to all attendees that it is time to shift to another room. Shifting rooms is optional. This also could give some of your team members the ability to switch off the pit presence on a regular schedule. The benefit is new visitors can come to your room and get your story from the start. The remaining time will be free form.
2) If your students get a chance, consider putting together a background graphic they can apply to their own videos windows. Several teams had them last time and it made for a nice team identity.
3) Our really active FRC rooms were showing of CAD, pictures, videos, and presenting interesting ideas.
Please make sure to update zoom to the latest version. You will need to be on a later version in order to be able to switch between rooms.
General FIRST WA Zoom Account is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: FTC Virtual Pits
Time: Dec 5, 2020 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Important Dates and Deadlines
12-31: FIRST Washington Grant closes
Kevin Emery
FTC Program Delivery Partner
FIRST Washington
Adrienne Rime
Director of Programs
FIRST Washington