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Volunteering for 2003/04  FLL event!

There are several ways you can give us a hand, and most require very little of your spare time...  The more hands, the lighter the load!  More detailed descriptions are found at the bottom of the page.

Sponsor a team:  Provide financial assistance to help a team of future engineers bring their creation to life!

Sponsor a tournament:  The WCRS wants to make the tournament as exciting as any major sporting event, and financial assistance is gratefully appreciated!

Competition Day Volunteers:  We need folks to help setup / teardown / and manage the day of the competition, and perhaps some work the night before.  Check out the "Volunteer Grid" for an idea of the types of positions we need

Coaching a team:  Spend about 2-4 hours a week with the a great group of kids, keeping them on track and pumped!

Technical Mentor:  A professional ( Scientist, engineer, technician, etc ) is needed to act as a sounding board for the teams idea's.

Referee's:  We need adults to referee the game day.  This will also require you sit one of our referee classes for a few hours prior to the big day!

Judging:  We need judges for the robots, and the teams presentations.  A judging class will be provided before the event.

Standing Committee Member:  These are the oxen who tirelessly labour to see this holy cause to fruition.  Hmmm... I didn't make that sound to satisfying!  Believe me:  it is!Application form for volunteering

If you can help us with our cause, please let us know who you are, and how you could help!

Volunteer position Descriptions:

(The following information was copied from the Minnesota FLL organizational website)

Judge

• Description: Judge award categories at tournaments. Awards include technical awards (best programming, mechanical design, innovative design, best presentation of ) and non-technical (teamwork, against all odds, judges, team spirit). Interact with, and encourage, the kids during discussion of their robot and team.
• Skills required: Relevant technical skills for the category you judge, desire to be a good and fair judge, desire to have fun!
• Time Commitment: One 2-3 hour training session, at least one all-day Sat.tournament
• Time Frame: Training in Nov., tournaments late Nov, early Dec, and Jan.

Referee

• Description: Officiate at the actual performance competition of the robots. Make sure teams follow the rules, keep track of the scoring during the match, encourage the kids.
• Skills required: Desire to be a good and fair referee, learn the rules very well, comfortable in a crowd, high tolerance for noise (bring your own earplugs!), desire to have fun!
• Time Commitment: One 2-3 hour training session, at least one all-day Sat. tournament
• Time Frame: Training in Nov., tournaments late Nov, early Dec, and Jan.

Technical Mentor

• Description: Act as a counsel to coach and team members. Provide guidance for structuring technical approach, for specific technical problems, computer programming, setting up good experiments to evaluate designs, for problem solving and troubleshooting. You are not the coach (although you can volunteer to be a coach too!).
• Skills required: Technical skills in programming or engineering (have you been, or are you now, a techie?)
• Time Commitment: Meet with assigned team as often as possible. Teams typically practice twice a week.
• Time Frame: Involved with team from late Sept. to early Dec.

Coaching a Team

 

• Description: Organize team and practices. Teach necessary skills Act as a counsel to team members. Provide guidance for structuring technical approach, for specific technical problems, computer programming, setting up good experiments to evaluate designs, for problem solving
  and troubleshooting.

• Skills required: Technical skills in programming or engineering (have you been, or are you now, a techie?)

• Time Commitment: At least 4-8 hrs per week, more towards the end.
  Teams typically practice twice a week.

• Time Frame: Training in late Sept or early Oct., involved with team from late Sept. to early Dec., into January if your team advances to provincial.
  
   

Help Setup or Just Volunteer for Event

• Description: Varies. Help setup (and/or design) tables, software for scoring and running event, projection systems, lighting, networks, etc.. Work at an event helping with registration, crowd management, merchandise sales, etc.
• Skills required: Technical skills in programming or engineering, if needed.
  In some cases, a strong back or just a willingness to help.
• Time Commitment: Depends on job. Setup starts the day before or early in the morning. You may also help with design (for example designing scoring software, lighting or projection) which would start in October. For volunteering at the event, commitment from 2 hrs to all day.
• Time Frame: Tournaments late Nov, early Dec, and Jan.

Sponsor a Team

• Description: Sponsor a team for the FLL season.
• Skills required: Money, or the ability to find it. Minimum would be registration fee, possibly also including material for practice course, t-shirts, travel expenses, etc.  $600 sets up a team nicely.
• Time Commitment: Not much
• Time Frame: Let us know as soon as possible, no later than Sept 30. Or find a team yourself to sponsor.

Sponsor a Tournament

• Description: Sponsor a regional tournament for the FLL season.
• Skills required: Money, or the ability to find it. Amount varies depending on the size of the event. Contact us for details.
• Time Commitment: Not much unless you also are the tournament director. Each tournament sponsor should provide one.
• Time Frame: Let us know as soon as possible, no later than Oct. 1st.