FARML team Slack workspaces

Dear fearless FARMLers,

I have created a Slack workspace for each FARML team.  I have invited all FARML students as well as their coaches to their team's FARML Slack workspace.  If you haven't already, please join the Slack workspace and rename yourself to your real name (first and last), and (if possible) DM me the members of your relay team.

These are the main reasons we are using Slack:

1. Zoom does not allow users to send DMs to more than one other user.  Since relay teams have 3 members, we need another platform that allows group messaging.
2. We need a standardized method of communication among each team.  Many students met their FARML teammates for the first time on Saturday.  As a result, we cannot let students find ways to communicate with each other on their own.
3. Other messaging platforms like Hangouts, text, or Messenger support group texts, but each group with different members ends up being a separate conversation.  We would like to have all group messages from each FARML team in the same place, which Slack allows.
4. It's easy to add and remove members from Slack workspaces, in case we need to do last-minute updates to our teams' rosters.
5. To join Slack, all you need to do is click on the invite link (and maybe type in your email address); you don't even need to set a password until after you've joined.  So making an account to join the server only takes one click :)
   

Lastly, our database is missing email addresses for the following students, so they could not be added to their team's Slack workspace.  If any of you know their email addresses, please let us know so we can add them to their workspaces.  The highlight color of students' names is the color of the team they are on.

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All the best,

Freya Edholm (she/her/hers)

Intern, mathleague.org