Feedback survey; tryouts next week

Hi everyone, 

Great to see everyone at practice this past weekend. Thanks to Simon and Nick for hosting their special sessions, and thanks to all of the coaches for helping out at this weekend's sessions. We hope to bring more breakout rooms next weekend, featuring both ARML and non-ARML content. If you'd like to run a session in a future week, please get in touch with me! We will continue to have practice 5pm-7pm Pacific on both Saturday and Sunday next weekend (and each subsequent week until Memorial Day).

Practice materials are now available at https://math.berkeley.edu/~moorxu/2020ARML/. To access the materials, use username=sfba and password=arml. 

Please help us make these sessions better by filling out this feedback survey! The survey is anonymous and all questions are optional. All feedback is valuable. If you're in a hurry, the feedback can be filled out in 15 seconds; if you want to take the time to write more, we'll read every word.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMcgpG3WH1f5sgrEHTZ5rlYwlCw6KP8Hys44bKABxAtoD4GA/viewform

Later this spring, we plan to participate in the FARML and ARML Local contests (also on Zoom). We will organize as many teams as needed to give everyone the opportunity to participate. The coaching staff will select a few teams to compete against other top teams from around the country; everyone else will also compete on either regional or self-organized teams.

If you'd like to be considered for one of the selected "elite" teams, we are holding tryouts (on Zoom) next weekend, during the hour either before or after our usual practice. The schedule is as follows:

• Saturday, April 25, 4-5pm Pacific
• Sunday, April 26, 7-8pm Pacific

The two tryouts will feature different problems. and you are encouraged to attend as many as possible. We will also hold additional tryouts in the future, probably the following weekend. Team selection will include a number of factors (including tryout results and performance at other contests). Also, you are encouraged to attend tryouts regardless of whether you think you're qualified to be on an elite team. They'll provide extra math practice for you; you can think of them as an extension of the usual 2-hour ARML practices.

Note: we have not yet received guidance on how ARML's region rules will apply for this year. If you're from a location outside of the Bay Area, Northern California, or what we've traditionally called "Wild Wild West" (AZ, ID, MT, NE, parts of NV, NM, ND, SD, WY), you're welcome to come to tryouts, and we'll inform you at a later date whether you can join our teams for these contests or if you should join a team from your local region.

One final thing: I know we promised information on t-shirts and the song contest -- we're still working out the details, so more to come later. :)

Best,

Moor