[Ben Zimmer]

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are all aware that NI and the FIRST robotics competition have provided a great opportunity for literally thousands of High School kids to get started with robotics, and LabVIEW.

**start of plea for your time**
I would like to personally recommend to anyone who will listen that they should get out there and volunteer for their local team as a mentor. None of these kids will have ever seen LabVIEW before, and a little bit of your time can really help a lot. I've been mentoring at one of my local schools and I'm honestly a bit shocked at how quickly they pick up LabVIEW. It is tremendously rewarding, and the competition is still more than 2 months away!
**end**

**start of sales pitch:**
We have decided to offer our online training to any mentor, parent, or teacher of a FIRST-participating school at a great academic discount.
For each such seat purchased, we will donate a seat to your team. Please visit www.lvmastery.com/first for more information.
**end**

Regards,
Ben

[hfettig]

'd love to mentor a team. I contacted FIRST Canada but never got a reply. There seems to be only one team here in Ottawa with enough mentors already.
Do you know somebody I can contact about this?

[scott45acp]

I have been mentoring The Hartford Wisconsin team 1091 Oriole Assault. We just got back from the Chicago regional. It was more fun that I ever could have thought it would be.



http://vimeo.com/3430342

[Michael Aivaliotis]

QUOTE (scott45acp @ Mar 4 2009, 07:00 AM)

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I have been mentoring The Hartford Wisconsin team 1091 Oriole Assault. We just got back from the Chicago regional. It was more fun that I ever could have thought it would be.
http://vimeo.com/3430342

Congrats on giving back to the engineers of tomorrow! We need more like you.