Week of Oct. 28

Week of Oct. 28

Thursday (10/31):  Practice Cancelled for Halloween

Saturday (11/2):  I will be at the center from 10 AM - 3 PM for anyone that wants to work on drive practice for the girls competition, or anyone that wants to work on any of the projects we normally work on at our Thursday practices.  Feel free to stop by for the full time, or part time.  Girls who make the drive team should plan to be here together for at least a couple of hours.

Open leadership positions:

• Business Managers:  I am looking for 3-4 students who are looking at being a leader in our administrative side.  These people will be our business managers.  You will need to be at practice 15 minutes early to help with money collection.  You will be instrumental in setting up our 2014 budget, and you will be creating our business plan.   
• Chairman's Lead:  This person will be responsible for organizing our chairman's essay, presentation and documentation.  They will lead chairman meetings with others in the group.  
• Safety Captains:  These people will lead our safety efforts.  You will monitor safe practices, and lead the safety meetings.  You will be in the pit during competitions and talking to judges.  
• Publications Lead:  This person will be responsible for leading our publications group.  You will be responsible for newsletters, webpages, social media, etc.  
• Chairman's Presentation Team:  These 3 individuals must present our chairman's presentation to the judges.  They are also responsible for editing the final essay.  It is preferred that the candidate have strong speaking skills and the ability to memorize speeches.  It is a high pressure position, so you must be able to maintain composure while stressed.  It is also important that these individuals not be interested in trying out for drive team.  If you are interested in being on the drive team, you should not apply for the chairman's presentation team.  This is often a multi-year commitment, because experience is vital in this presentation.  Please consider this carefully before applying.  

These positions are open to anyone on the team, however, preference will go to veteran members pursuing varsity status.  Applications for these positions must be completed by Friday, Nov. 1.  You can fill out an application here:  Leadership Application

VOLUNTEERS FOR TOURNAMENTS:  

Parents, team members, and mentors, if you are interested in helping with our FTC or FRC tournaments, you must register in VIMS.  We would like to fill most major roles with Bedford people.  In order to make this happen, we need you to sign up now.   If you have any problems creating or logging in your VIMS account, please talk to Sandy Smith, our volunteer coordinator for both events.  **Even if you already applied on our volunteer sheet for the FTC event, you must do it in VIMS.  This is new this year.*** 

VIMS can be logged into here:  VIMS    You can greatly help us out by signing up ASAP!   

 The December junior high  tournament is FTC, so select FTC, then Michigan, then look for the Bedford Event.  Volunteers are needed Friday night (Dec. 13) and Saturday all day (Dec. 14).   

For our high school events, we need parents and mentors who do not work with the team to volunteer.  Volunteers are needed for all 3 days of our event.  It runs Thursday beginning at 4:00 PM for official volunteers (April 3) through Saturday (April 6).   We will also need volunteers to help with set up on Wednesday night (April 2) and that can be entered in VIMS as well.   For this event, select FRC, then Michigan then our Bedford Tournament.  

Additionally, we need to send 2 volunteers to work at the Southfield Competitionn on February 28 - March 01. You can sign up in VIMS for this as well, but please let me know you have done so. Please be sure to put FRC 1023 in your team affiliations so that we get credit for you being there. :)

Volunteers that work at least 2 days at an event are giving a volunteer t-shirt.  Volunteers are also given free meals during their work shifts.  Volunteering at an event is a lot of fun.  You will get to see a different side of the event.  Most positions allow you to leave and watch our team when we are up. :)   Please sign up today if you are interested.

Additionally, we will be needing volunteers for our concession stand.  Please DO NOT sign up in VIMS if you want to work the Concession area.  This is a BX thing and not a FIRST thing. :)   We will be asking for volunteers for that soon.   :)

Have a safe and fun Halloween!  See you Saturday or next week!  If you have not yet turned in forms, please do so ASAP!!! Thanks!