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PTOS Silicon Valley is looking for Judges and Mentors for the Tech Challenge

Judging/Mentoring will take place on April 29-30 (Sat & Sun)

Tech Museum of Innovation

201 South Market Street

San Jose, CA 95113

Learn more here: The Tech Challenge 2017

Sign up at:  link

Here are step-by-step instructions to register for the position, day and time that interests you: 

1. Go to thetechchallengereg.thetech.org/volunteer.aspx Enter the email address you used to register last year and click the “Login”. If this is your first time volunteering for The Tech Challenge, scroll to New Volunteers, click “Register” and enter your information. Please use your work email address to speed registration. Use of your work email may also help The Tech in securing additional donations as your employer may provide a matching donation for your volunteer time. 
2. The system will return you to the main page. Re-enter your email address and click "Login".
3. Positions are organized in the following categories: Event Support, Judging, Judging Support and Team Support. Find the category that interests you and click “Show Details” to see the available positions. 
4. When you’ve found the position, day and time that works best for you, click the green time slot button. Wait 5-10 seconds for the system to save your information. A message will appear at the top of the screen that says “You have been added.”

The Tech Challenge, a signature program of The Tech Museum of Innovation, is an annual team design challenge for students in Grades 4-12 that introduces and reinforces the engineering design process with a hands-on project geared toward solving a real-world problem.

If interested please contact Namitha Pillai (namitha.pillai@uspto.gov) or Loan Truong (loan.truong@uspto.gov)

Anyone qualified in the above areas, including spouses and friends are invited to judge

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