Urgent-**FIRST EMAIL**/Help Get FIRST on CBS News - Vote Online

[Rich Wong]

Greetings Teams:

FIRST needs your help. You can help FIRST get national network TV coverage. CBS News Assignment America has contacted us about possibly doing a story on FIRST. But the decision to proceed or not won't be made by CBS - it might be made by you.

Here's How It Works.

* CBS News previews three different segments on its Friday night 7:00PM broadcast and asks viewers to vote for the one they would like to see covered more completely. The segment with the most votes gets covered with a full story. The segment is called Assignment America. This Friday, one of the choices will be a story on FIRST.

Here's What You Can Do

Friday night after the broadcast, go to CBSNews.com, click on the Assignment America icon and vote for FIRST.

If the entire FIRST community turns out, we'll be tough to beat!
Thanks for your help.

Go Teams!

[nehalita]

Someone should pass the word on at Championships.

[tiffany34990]

I'll be sure to pass this info along!

FIRST rocks and it needs to be shared with the world!

[Rich Wong]

FOLK! at home and at the Championship.
Please do what you can to vote online and help get us on to CBS News.
It will benefit all of us in the long run! :)

[Rich Kressly]

I just voted!!! Please do the same so CBS airs the story next Friday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/28/eveningnews/main1558620.shtml

Choose Amadou's Story

[nehalita]

Normally I don't do this but I think this story is worth hearing. Please vote at the site that Rich Kressly posted above.

[Rich Wong]

Granny Protesters- Sorry, Granny, I don't think so.

Mutton Rodeo- Only BBQ'ed with a side order of veggies.

Amadou's Story- YES!
Voted.

Please vote!
:)

And the message-
"Thanks for voting!
The winning story will be revealed Monday night at 6:30pm ET on the CBS Evening News. And tune in to catch Steve Hartman's report on Friday."

[sanddrag]

Can we get a mod to make this portal page item or an announcement or at least a sticky?

EDIT:
Wow, now that's instant gratification. Thanks Brandon.

[Jay H 237]

Amadou just recieved another vote from me. :)

and by posting this I'm doing my part to keep this thread high on the portal where everyone has the best chance of seeing it, yeah that's right, I bumped it. ;) :D

Thanks for bringing this up Rich, now I can't wait to see if this story wins!

[DonRotolo]

I voted, now that's something we can do!
Be sure to look here (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46894), here (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46922) and here. (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46886)

Don

[jpsaul7usa]

I voted for Amadou's Story, not because I think it would expose more people around the country to FIRST, but it sounds like it will expose more FIRST students, looking for a story about themselves, to education/immigration issues, issues that impact all of us. I look forward to watching the program. :cool:

[Ryan Dognaux]

I voted! Is there any way to see which one is currently winning?

[Donut]

I voted! Is there any way to see which one is currently winning?

Second this request.

[d.courtney]

one more (and from Canada... haha)... I don't see how the others will get votes, they don't even sound interesting the why they are said...

[cire]

I just had about 20 people go vote for it! And voted for it myself too :)

I really hope it shows up, will definitly have to see it.

[Taylor_Ratliff]

I voted

[Richard Wallace]

I voted at work, and then again at home.

Vote early, vote often!

[Lil' Lavery]

I voted!

[Conor Ryan]

Forget Pedro, I voted for Amadou

[David Guzman]

Just voted,

I am having my whole team vote too. If you have more than one browser you can vote once in each one.

Let's get as many votes as we can and show everyone what FIRST is about. So tell your friends, coworkers, teammates, etc. to go and vote.

[JoeXIII'007]

On behalf of Team 66, and hopefully more of my members catch on by Monday, I voted.

Cross fingers and hope this works out!

[Madison]

It feels a bit weird that we should be positioning this kid's fight to stay in the United States as a great opportunity to make a FIRST commercial.

[Athleticgirl389]

Just Got At Least 2 More Votes Over Here. And I'm Passing It Around For It To Get More Votes :)

[lukevanoort]

I voted for it too. Not that I'd be able to watch it though... don't get CNN at my moms house. Can someone grab it somehow if it wins?

[hao1300]

Just voted for Amadou...

[Spiffizzle]

I VOTED!

[StephLee]

I voted, and I'm bugging my team to do the same!

[Erin Rapacki]

I'm refreshing this thread so it stays on the portal:

You can still vote!!! Polls don't end until Monday morning.

Vote Now!

[FF_1610_EMT]

i voted and read the story that was in the NY Times. hope he gets to stay in the U.S.

[Tyler Olds]

Just a little cool tidbit, this information was sent out to over 9000 NASA employees on Saturday. Hopefully this will make the difference. No matter what your opinion is on the story, remember that it is still national media coverage for FIRST. The more we are known the better (unless we get called a company by CNN again. I was waiting for the reporter to ask Dean that as the CEO of FIRST, what his salary would be).

[StephLee]

Voting's closed...they'll announce the winner in half an hour...

Unless either of the other stories has a hidden cult following them, in all honesty Amandou's story should win.

[MattK]

Amandou won! Amandou won!

[Julia Magoolia]

Congrats, FIRST community- we did it, we got FIRST and Amadou's story on CBS!
I can't wait to see the story next Friday on CBS- And I know I'll see quite a few familiar faces (and bots!)

[IA-Howitzer]

O well, I was too late to find out about this thread to vote... :(

[Greg Needel]

O well, I was too late to find out about this thread to vote... :(

It's ok we won anyway. Just make sure you watch the show.

[Jay H 237]

There was just a story about this on PBS with Jim Lehrer. It was filmed in Atlanta and while they didn't describe FIRST they did show a bit of the competition and an interview in the pits. They also interviewed Amadou's teammates with the large FIRST banner hung outside in the background.

They may post it later on PBS's website. I didn't see anything when I just looked. The story was aired at 7:45 pm tonight. The timing was amazing, I'm just flipping channels when I run across them talking about Amadou and showing an Aim High match going in the background. :)

[ahirsch2589]

i was right next to the lady as she was filming the story, it was originally on the today show. she was filming from the room on the 2nd floor overlooking the pit area

[Rich Wong]

**FIRST EMAIL**/FIRST Wins in a Landslide
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Greetings Teams:

The votes are in................and the winner is FIRST!

FIRST received the most votes for this Friday's CBS Assignment America, so please be sure to tune in this Friday to CBS News at 6:30 pm. More details can be found at the following link:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/03/eveningnews/main1276706.shtm

Thanks to the entire FIRST Community for turning out the vote.

Go Teams!

[Summmergrl2298]

i voted and read the story that was in the NY Times. hope he gets to stay in the U.S.


do u remember which issue it was in? i looked through several and couldnt find it :confused:

[Rich Wong]

do u remember which issue it was in? i looked through several and couldnt find it :confused:
The New York Times-
April 26, 2006
"Student's Prize Is a Trip Into Immigration Limbo"
by Nina Bernstein
:)

[Brandon Martus]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46894&highlight=nyt

[MarsBOtkid]

You know 1523 M.A.R.S will be there!!!

See you guys there

[Morgan Gillespie]

6:30 eastern time? I wouldn’t like to miss it because of a time zone misinterpretation.

[Greg Ross]

They may post it later on PBS's website. I didn't see anything when I just looked.
It's there now: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june06/immigration_5-2.html#

[Scott Shaw 237]

I just saw the segment on CBS. It was definitly well done and shows the struggles that Amandou had to over come to do what he loves most, FIRST. Definitly inspiring.

[K.Shaw]

eh like always it was short, but it was pretty cool to see some Atlanta action on a huge station like CBS.

[Michelle Celio]

I missed it =[ Do they air the segments twice? Are they available online?

[spears312]

Just saw it as well. It was a pretty nice report. There may not have been a lot of robot action in it, but anything we get is good, and I think the the real story and subject matter was more important.

[Billfred]

I saw it--it was a very nice piece. Perhaps some folks would gripe about them only talking about the competition itself, but I liked the way it was covered.

[Steve Howland]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/05/eveningnews/main1595837.shtml

The video posted in the right column in case anyone missed it!

[StephLee]

It was pretty well done; I liked the opening line..."This is a story about a robot, but also not..." or something like that. To be honest, that fits FIRST itself pretty well, even though that wasn't their intention.

I didn't tune in until 6:45; lost track of time and nearly freaked when I thought I missed it. Luckily for me, they didn't air it until about 6:50. :D