This message is only for OAKLAND COUNTY TEAMS!
 

Posted by Mike McIntyre at 04/29/2001 11:49 PM EST


Coach on team #1, Juggernaut, from Oakland Technical Center Northeast and 3 Dimensional Services.



The Oakland County Competitive Robotics Association (OCCRA)will kick off its 2nd season with an organizational meeting at Oakland Schools on May 8th at 3:00 P.M.; we had 22 schools compete last year in the league and would like to start early and build on our success. If you need more info, write me at McMike51@aol.com.

calling 308, 67, 503, 573, 349....
 

Posted by Erin at 04/30/2001 8:58 AM EST


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


In Reply to: This message is only for OAKLAND COUNTY TEAMS!
Posted by Mike McIntyre on 04/29/2001 11:49 PM EST:



Please show up at this meeting and join up for the fall season!!!! You are some of the last high schools in Oakland not to be represented. It would be great to have you involved. This competition is so much fun and can be very beneficial for your team. I remember some of the kids on our team saying, "I can't WAIT until OCCRA season!!!"

Hopefully you all can join us this year!!

-Erin

p.s. FIRST teams who reprsented an OCCRA team last year were: 1, 27, 47, (some of) 68, 65, 226, 245, 201, 33, 94, 301, 247; and some of the schools that participated were Royal Oak (both schools), Waterford (both schools), Holly, Brandon, Lasher...hopefully new schools from Oakland can help add to this list!!!!!

I want to see standings in the newspaper!
 

Posted by Ken Patton at 04/30/2001 11:01 PM EST


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


In Reply to: calling 308, 67, 503, 573, 349....
Posted by Erin on 04/30/2001 8:58 AM EST:



I can't wait to see the league standings in the Oakland Press - wouldn't that be cool....

The bigger we get...
 

Posted by Erin at 05/01/2001 7:51 AM EST


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


In Reply to: I want to see standings in the newspaper!
Posted by Ken Patton on 04/30/2001 11:01 PM EST:



It shouldn't be too hard for them to start paying attention to us once we start really growing. I think that we should all take initiative and contact them in some way once the season starts, and maybe if we annoy them enough they will give us a lot of coverage.

I know I will be calling their offices about it.

Re: I want to see standings in the newspaper! - us too
 

Posted by soap108 at 05/01/2001 1:07 PM EST


Engineer on team #108, SigmaC@T, from Dillard & Taravella HS and Motorola.


In Reply to: I want to see standings in the newspaper!
Posted by Ken Patton on 04/30/2001 11:01 PM EST:



Ken,

At KSC a reporter from the local NBC Station was there and I asked about how to pitch such an idea to the local stations and newspapers. His suggestion was don't approach it as a sporting event, rather take a local news angle.

Most newspapers would be willing to print the standings and maybe some stats of teams local to the event. If we can get them to do that, publishing the whole list of teams and their stats is the next step.

Essentially if we (or FIRST) gives the media a dump of the stats and standings in an acceptable format (whatever that may be) then they should print it and possibly do some extra side stories of some of the teams...

Once enough local papers get onboard then maybe we'll hit the national scene?! USA Today here we come.

Would you care to work together on assembling a presentation to take to a typical newspaper in order to get them to cover the standings? I'll also ping FIRST on the idea.

Hope this helps,
KA - 108/SOAP

: I can't wait to see the league standings in the Oakland Press - wouldn't that be cool....