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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This is a gentle reminder that the deadline to complete the interest survey to become a local Team Leader to assist with the TESOL 2022 Convention
 on March 22-25 in Pittsburgh is <b>November 15</b>. Please see our original email about the Team Leader positions below. 
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As you may have heard, the TESOL International Convention 2022 will be held in Pittsburgh, and Three Rivers TESOL will be the Host Affiliate
 to help with the logistical operation of the event. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In the past, more than 6000 TESOL members and non-members have attended the convention each year, and in 2022, we are hoping the Pittsburgh
 convention will be the first year to bring TESOL friends back to the face-to-face meeting after the pandemic. Thus, we need all local TESOLers’ help to make it a successful event. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In September, Three Rivers TESOL appointed three members, Suzanne Meyer, Linh Phung, and Ying Zhang as Local Co-Chairs for the convention.
 The Local Co-Chairs work closely with team leaders to support 9 areas of the convention organization, including Bag and Program Distribution, Hospitality, Educational Visits, Tea with Distinguished TESOLers, Networking Sessions, PreK-12 Day, Pre- and Post-Convention
 Sessions, Poster Sessions, and Volunteers.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In order to recruit volunteer team leaders, we as the local co-chairs have created a presentation with PowerPoint (see attached) to provide
 an overview of the convention organization and a link to the presentation provided at the 3RT Fall Conference with the
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">PowerPoint (</span><a href="https://youtu.be/w_VE4AAFHyU" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155cc">https://youtu.be/w_VE4AAFHyU</span></a><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.
 We have also created a survey for our local TESOL friends who are interested to become the team leaders:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TESOL2022TeamLeader" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background:white">https://tinyurl.com/TESOL2022TeamLeader</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The survey deadline is
<b>November 15, 2020</b>. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We encourage you to volunteer for a team leader position. We also encourage you to help us spread the news with your colleagues and friends.
 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Suzanne Meyer:
</span><a href="mailto:sdmeyer@pitt.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155cc">sdmeyer@pitt.edu</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Linh Phung:
</span><a href="mailto:lphung@chatham.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155cc">lphung@chatham.edu</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ying Zhang:
</span><a href="mailto:zhang@rmu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155cc">zhang@rmu.edu</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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