Way to Go GE

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Posted by Ken Patton.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #65, The Huskie Brigade, from Pontiac Northern High School and GM Powertrain.

Posted on 12/26/99 12:17 PM MST




I was watching Meet the Press this morning, and there was a GE commercial highlighting their public service efforts. Of the three things they highlighted, one was about a FIRST team. It showed a robot (#187 or #197?) moving across a field, no action other than that and not much detail, but it was exciting all the same.

Way to go guys - its regular commercials and popular TV (Meet the Press is popular isn't it? :)) that will keep this thing growing. I can't wait to see a commercial illustrating the huge excitement of a competition.

Ken

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Posted by Lora Knepper.

Student on team #69, HYPER, from Quincy Public Schools and The Gillette Company.

Posted on 12/26/99 7:09 PM MST


In Reply to: Way to Go GE posted by Ken Patton on 12/26/99 12:17 PM MST:



Cool! I'll have to keep my eye out for it! Every sponsor should be proud of their involvement with FIRST!

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Posted by Raul.

Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.

Posted on 12/27/99 2:43 PM MST


In Reply to: Way to Go GE posted by Ken Patton on 12/26/99 12:17 PM MST:



It would be great if someone could capture the commercial and make an MPEG file of it for all of us to see. I will keep my VCR ready in case I see it.

Raul

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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 12/27/99 8:57 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Way to Go GE posted by Raul on 12/27/99 2:43 PM MST:



Raul,

The commercial has been running every weekend on Meet the Press. The robot is a few seconds in the middle of a commercial about volunteerism at GE.

I have seen it a couple of times, but I keep forgetting to mention it on the site.

Bye the way, the GE team in KY is an off shoot of Chief Delphi. My old boss, Bob Baughman, co-lead the Chief Delphi team in 96 our first FIRST year. He moved on to GE after that year and started a team down there.

Well done Bobby.

Joe J.