pic: LI Newsday Cover

[Rich Wong]

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[Alekat]

Robot Wars.... eesh.
My experience with media portraying FIRST hasn't been positive. I'm sure some journalists will "get it", but I'm also sure most of them won't.

[The GarbageMan]

See that.. its me, the guy on the far left and my awesome co driver adam. our team is 545

[vadyr]

ahh...i remember getting the newsday at my front door when i lived in Long Island. those were the good old days....except the high school i would have gone to wouldnt have had robotics, so thank god i moved to pennsylvania!

[GaryVoshol]

Was this story a year old? Or did they just not have a picture from this year so they used one from last year?

[wingnut1705]

I agree with Alex. The other day I got my school district's monthly newsletter. On a column about my team the title was also "Robot Wars" Enough said.

[themagic8ball]

This is a problem with FIRST in general. Instead of appealing to the government, we should really appeal to the mass media for better coverage, and then if a government official sees he can get some good press for helping an event, he or she would be more inclined to help FIRST out.

[Scott358]

The article from this past Thursday, but the photos where from last year.

This is the first major coverage by our major local paper (Newsday) after 8 years of having the event here, so it's good to see.

As far as the war reference, it's commonly used by the press (which is unfortunate, but it grabs attention).

[Athleticgirl389]

See that.. its me, the guy on the far left and my awesome co driver adam. our team is 545

It's also our awesome driver Kris and our engineer/mentor =]
Thanks for posting this photo!!!

[billy9083]

I saw a story in the paper about the competition and it said that operators tell the robot "when to attack". First needs to get rid of the battle bots image.