Street Survival School - Sanford, NC March 3rd

[tedebayer]

Hi Everyone!

WHAT: BMW CCA Street Survival Teen Driving School
WHEN: Saturday, March 3, 2012 7:30am-4:30pm
WHERE: Old Sanford Airport, 3000 Airport Road, Sanford, NC
WHY: To give our knowledge back and make the roads safer

If you want more info, see below. For those who know the drill, please reply to me ([e-mail]) as soon as possible by answering the following questions:

1) Will you instruct/volunteer to help with this event?
2) Will you be available on Friday, March 2nd to help with venue set up?
3) Do you have any ideas for improvements or changes from last time?
4) What is your preference for student to instructor ratio, and why?
5) Please add any comments or suggestions so we can incorporate them into our next event.

If you don't know about Street Survival, it's an exceptional teen driving safety program that emphasizes car control and accident avoidance to break bad driving habits before they start. Click here for more info: streetsurvival.org/

If you coached for us last year, you can sign up on MSR at this event: www.motorsportreg.com/index.cfm/event/event.advert/uidEvent/C545D6FF-ABB7-C693-2B14531756DF9518

If you didn't coach last March, contact me to be added to the coach roster before registering. MSR may treat you like a student otherwise.

We need 50-60 instructors (including advanced "A" group and ITS candidates) and as many volunteers as we can get. The venue is the Old Sanford Airport (now an emergency services training center) where THSCC runs many of their autocross events. Its just a hop, skip and jump from the Triangle and is even closer than VIR for most of you.

This note is intended to solicit instructors, but please forward to anyone you think would like to be involved in any capacity. Advanced "A" level students and ITS candidates are strongly encouraged to instruct at this event. Its a perfect venue for you to play an instructor role. We also need exercise leads and cone shaggers as well as classroom, registration and hospitality staff.

We hope you can help us provide this amazing and potentially life-saving experience for as many teen drivers as possible. Please excuse us if you get this multiple times. We're recruiting through numerous outlets.

Thank You,

Phil Antoine ([e-mail])
Tarheel BMW CCA Street Survival

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[jbyrd]

You know I'll be there if at all possible, Ted!

Guys, the most rewarding experiences I've ever had in an automobile came at Street Survival Schools.

Ok....maybe the experience with Betsy-Whats-Er-Name while I was in High School ranks up there, but believe me, this is worth the drive. You won't regret it.

[tedebayer]

Last year, over 5,000 teenagers died in motor vehicle crashes, the leading killer of American youths aged 16 to 19, accounting for more than 40 percent of fatalities in that age bracket. THAT is 100 per state on average. If you don't know a youth that died in a car accident, chances are very high, you will. This is a chance to make a difference.

I hope you will all consider going and instructing or helping out. They need all kinds of workers and this is a great cause. We are planning to hold more of these in our region so please ... go get some time learning, helping and teaching now. It's an experience you will not regret.

I would love to be at this one but I have already signed up to co-drive a LeMons race that weekend. Please ... go with John. He's been doing this a while and he'll be the first tell you, it's more fun for us than it is the kids that take the course... and THEY LOVE IT!

streetsurvival.org/

P.S. John... please find out Betsy's last name. I'm worried. My grandmother was named Betsy... and she had a thing for Z3 drivers.

[lilgunny]

I will have to agree with these gents...it's the most fun you can have as a passenger in a car. And a very worthwhile cause.
LilGunny

[jbyrd]

Gunny speaks the truth!

Jan 12, 2012 12:21:20 GMT -5 tedebayer said:

P.S. John... please find out Betsy's last name. I'm worried. My grandmother was named Betsy... and she had a thing for Z3 drivers.

Ted, don't worry. She was way too old to be your grandmother!