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well as FIRST becomes bigger and more popular, teams are beginning to appear in newspapers and magazines, What has your team gotten publicity wise, and how accurate was it?

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Well, we've had quite a few news stories, almost all of which had our president's name mispelled. It was really quite funny: he now answers to "Thomas Broden" :D

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weve been in the schools newspaper lots of times the real newspaper 2+ times. been on the news a few times;NBC twice, CBS I think once.

http://www.risd.org/schools/phs/club...eo/video1.html

thats a link to our NBC story.

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The only newspaper I ever remember being featured in was last year, after the Nats [published May 4th]. It seemed pretty accurate -- I have the article somewhere in my room [spent the last hour trying to find it, wasn't able to] but I can't find it to I'm just going to post a link to part of the article:

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/insideto...k+on+the+world

It seemed pretty accurate -- it was our first ever major publication -- listed how we'd placed 5th of 85 in the Galileo Divison [top seeded Canadian team in the history of the championships to date, apr 23-25 2005] and how we'd only managed to make it to the GTR/Canadian Regional prior to.

Other publication we've received are twice a year through our school newspaper and every year in the yearbook.

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We make a big effort to publicize. As a result, over the last couple of years it has become easier to receive publicity. Here is this years list:

Date-Publication-Title-Page
24-Feb-05-Arizona Republic Newspaper-High School Robotics Team Gears Up for Competition-
25-Feb-05-Arizona Republic Newspaper-Engineering in Motion-B1,B11
15-Mar-05-Arizona Republic Newspaper-Great day to be a Geek Editorial-B6
25-Mar-05-Wired (April Issue)-La Vida Robot-122-129, 130
28-Mar-05-Washington Post-Stinky the Robot, Four Kids And a Brief Whiff of Success-C01
1-Apr-05-The Press, Christchurch, N.Z.-Stinky's Triumph-C1
8-Apr-05-Arizona Republic - Extra-Young scientists' future threatened-6
12-Apr-05-Congressional Record-Congratulating the Falcon Robotics Team of Carl Hayden High School on its Achievements-E628
25-Apr-05-Arizona Republic-Ingenuity brightens future-A1, A22, A23
29-Apr-05-Teleritmo-Los Roboticos de Carl Hayden High School-14
4-May-05-Arizona Republic-Carl Hayden high team is honored at robot championship-B3
5-May-05-Arizona Republic - Phoenix-Robot team can't use the money-Phoenix 1
21-Jun-05-Arizona Republic-Carl Hayden beats MIT in war of robots; Locals take 3rd place in competition-B3
29-Jun-05-Prenso Hispana-Aportan su creatividad a la Robotica-pp1F
1-Jul-05-SACNES NEWS-Investing in the Future, Corporations and the Carl Hayden high School Robot Team-pp 8-10
1-Jul-05-Latino Perspectives-Livin' La Vida Robot; Local students engineer their own success-pp 24-25
19-Jul-05-Arizona Daily Star, Tucson paper-Bill opens gateway to dream-Tucson Section
20-Jul-05-Expansion-Mexicanos in Hollywood-99 160-162
1-Sep-05-Québec Science-Stinky contre le MIT-p 11
1-Oct-05-NEA Today-Robots Rule; How immigrant kids from low-income famalies beat MIT-p 64
Fall 2005-NUCOR Agenda-Wired for success-pp 32-33
Fall 2005-Education Phoenix-Carl Hayden Places Third in Underwater Robotics Championship-p 64
Fall 2005-Education Phoenix-La Escuela Carl Hayden Obtiene el Tercer Lugar en Campeonato do Robótica Submarina-p 14
5-Dec-05-Arizona Republic-Robot tourney builds science interest-p B2
14-Mar-06-Arizona Republic-Robotics teams again fare well-p B3
15-Mar-06-Arizona Republic-Robot victory just part of story for Hayden students-p B1-B2
1-May-06-Reader's Digest -La Vida Robot-
1-Sep-06-Iguana Magazine-National Hispanic Youth English language magazine Cover story-
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-Broadcast Media- -
27-Feb-05-KTAR Radio-News report-1 min
14-Mar-05-KPNX-TV-1 minute news feature-1 min
16-Apr-05-National Public Radio-Weekend Edition Saturday-6 min
21-Apr-05-National Public Radio-Here and Now -9.5 min
25-Apr-05-Ch3-Partnership Award-2 min
27-Apr-05-Ch3-5 o'clock news-2 min
27-Apr-05-KTAR Radio-David Leibowitz Show-5 min
28-Apr-05-BIZ Radio Houston TX-Dayna Steele Show-10 min
28-Apr-05-Ch33 Univision-National News 1 minute-1 min
29-Apr-05-BIZ Radio Houston TX-Dayna Steele Show-10 min
1-May-05-PHX99-"On the Issues" Simplot show-10 min, 27 repeats
5-May-05-KNOW, cable TV-ROV and Robot building-3 min
27-May-05-ABC News Nightline-"Stinky, the Little Robot that Could"-
17-Jun-05-BIZ Radio Houston TX-Dayna Steele Show-1 hour
1-Jul-05-KNPNX-Morning Show-5 min
17-Jun-05-Ch15-Evening News-1 min
1-Jul-05-Ch 12-Morning Show-12 min
5-Jul-05-RADIO CITY (BBC-EL UNIVERSO)-Guayaquil-Ecuador-5 min


Send your Chairman's submission to the news outlets, school board, parents, etc. We have a very long way to go before FIRST-like activities receive the coverage that sports activities do.

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Last year we were featured in the State News, the Grand Ledge paper, Focal Point and the local ABC station.

This year I have been asked (I'm a journalism major) to do a story for the Lansing State Journal which hopefully I will finish soon. I anticipate that being pretty accurate...

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Team 538 has appear in the local paper the Arab Tribune and the Huntsville Times.

And in 2003 were in the Houston Chronicle.

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Our team has been in multiple newspaper articles including being on the front page. We just got interviewed by a lady from the Hartford Current and have been noticed in our town journals for our scrimmage and accomplishments at our regionals.

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well one of our articles was on the front page... its kind of sad they didn't have anything better to write about, they also said our robot was 29 feet by 30 feet by 5 feet... i guess it never occurred to them something that big would not fit in the warehouse.

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If your teams are covered in the media and the story's online, please post a link in the "FIRST in the News" forum: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/fo...play.php?f=126

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Your wish is my command

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Team 116 has, over the years, been in tons of publications including:
PTA Newsletters
"The Stinger" (HHS newspaper)
The Herndon Observer
The Herndon Connection
The Herndon Times
The Fairfax Connection
The Washington Post
Red Apple 21 (Fairfax County Public Schools channel)
NBC4 (Regional)
NASA TV
A&E's "The Competition" (hour long national special along with Team 388)

We are currently working on appearing in at least having 4 more newspaper articles about our 2006 effort, and possibly a NASA TV special.

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AMAZING!! How do you do it? We are a VERY small team and we want to publicize ourselves, for sponsorship, etc. reasons. If you have any tips, and tricks, I would really appreciate if you could let me know.

Thanks

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See the NEMO White Paper "FIRST Publicity Manual" for some great ideas put together by team mentors. Also, "Creating a Killer Team Packet" talks about how to produce a professional packet to give to potential sponsors.
(Search for "NEMO" in the CD-Media Papers section for more white papers that might be of interest).

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Team 213 received coverage in our local newspaper, The Keene Sentinel, after we finished as finalists in Boston this year. It was a decent length and got the facts it stated right.

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1089s been in the news, and we're hoping to be in the news some more!
Here's a link to our website, where all of our articles have been scanned and put into pdf format for everyone to read.

http://www.mercury1089.com/main/?page=news.txt

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It's really not magic. We write a lot of press releases. Keep track of reporter's email addresses and such.

We also do a lot: Scrimmages, FLL championships, several robot competitions. We send press releases before events and then we often send a follow up the day before and another a day after events with results. Your football team (or someone) sends in schedules and results. We do the same.

If someone on the team wins an award, we publicize.

We write articles and submit them to newsletters and magazines. We get a LOT of rejections, but every now and then...

We do a lot of presentations at schools, engineering groups, and service clubs. We let them know we have 1/2 or 1 hour presentations. People talk and the word of mouth advertising is effective. Someone in the audience may be a spouse of an editor.

Have people apply for every award: teacher of the year, city student of the year, etc. Publicity is a way of making the public aware of science, math, and engineering activities. The more everyone hears about FIRST, the better!

Our first two years we received almost 0 publicity. It's like finding sponsors, if no one knows about you, it's really hard. But eventually, we were noticed. Now we have people phoning asking about how we are doing or asking for comments. It's kind of like if a reporter is stuck, they have our contact information and they know we are "verbal".

When you do your Chairman's report, print a lot of extra copies and send them to everyone: school board, CEO's, news people, Oprah, local universities, etc...

You know the goofy morning news shows? Invite the personality or the weather person to come to a scrimmage or a regional practice and tell them you will let them drive it in a practice competition.

We also send press releases to the Spanish Outlets.

Make sure you give a lot of info and pictures to your school newspaper.

If you make videos or CD's, make hundreds of copies and send them to EVERYONE.

Invite your congressman to visit your school to see how you are way above average in science and technology activities and how important such programs are to the U.S.

Many radio shows do "remotes” Invite them.

Anything slightly newsworthy -- press release!

Anytime someone shows up, send a thank you email.


No magic, just persistence -- and a LOT of rejection.

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Team 175 has been published in many newspapers over the years, usually when we win or place well. Today we were published in the Journal Inquirer. Unfortunately the headline read “Fermi's Buzz Robotics team takes second place in regional competition”. Good headline, except we won. :)

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The Arctic Warriors have been usually called the Aztec Warriors in the papers.

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We've had a front page appearence (me actually) on a local daily paper and a weekly local paper. We've also gotten some articles in some local papers (probably 3 or 4) since ship date. Most of the information is pretty accurate as well. :)

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Our team was in the Miami Herald and we were on a spanish channel, Telemundo 51.

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The team was in the local paper again today....and I got to provide pictures! so be sure to take good pics of stuff you want people to see, you never know when you'll need them.

(the link below will show this article for a little while)

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We have been on NY1 twice, CBS 1, and a local area paper once. We have also been in our school paper(s), numerous times.

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Here is one of our articles. (with photos - with me - the one on the right was a large front page one Saturday of GLR!)

and another...

There are a few more as well, but I can't seem to find them online.

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We have been featured in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, Smithsonian, and the New York Times.

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This isn't really a newspaper article, but it is PR from the NYC 2006 regional.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/tv/videoS...814ec6d859b81f

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Hmm..

25's been in/on the broadcast media & print media many a times.

In the past, we've been on ABC's Good Morning America, CNN, etc.
This season, we've been featured in the Home News Tribune, our local Sentinel, the Las Vegas Times(I think this is what it was called), and more.

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Thanks, No one on our team has ever written a press release before. Do you have any samples that we could take a look at?

Thanks
Anish

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Recently Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates and Milinda Gates visited our school and stoped by our engineering lab to see the progress of our robot. From what I know that visit should be on the Oprah Winfrey show sometime this month.

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WOW...

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Team 612 has been in a lot of newspapers, local magazines and TV Channels.

Some of the famous one includes Washington Post, Channel 9, and Channel One.
here are some latest links you can follow through

http://wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=46169

Smithsonian Press Release
http://www.nasm.edu/events/spotlight_may.cfm

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The Post Standard put in a small square of text about us a few weeks ago about our victory...and than this weekend I find a pic of Pink Team half the size of the paper from the boston regional. I just find it funny we never get the spotlight in our own paper...

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There are a lot of teams in our area so it is tough for one team to be featured. However, Newsday did an article on the Long Island Regional and there was a picture of our team.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/lo...,4729125.story

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Our team is in our local papers often (after every regional and kickoff, during build season) because we send pics and press releases whenever something is going on. They've also covered some of our fundraisers and school assemblies and career fairs we host, as do the 3 local TV stations.

Last month we were featured on our local CBS affiliate's morning TV show. We had 3 3-minute live segments. The reporter and videographer came to our school (at 5:15 a.m.) and we were live at 5:45, 6:15, and 6:45. Great publicity and we were sure to let everyone in our community know it would be on! To get this we just asked to be featured as the station reports live from somewhere everyday.

I'm proud to say that our team members did ALL of the talking during these live segments and did a fabulous job (the advisors just stood in the background and behind the camera).

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Team 1732 in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Students and their robots strut their stuff for science"

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We've gotten a fair amount of publicity for our rookie year. I know that we were in Main Line Times as pre-rookies for modifying one of Miss Daisy's robots for Ramp Riot 05. We had a feature article in Main Line Life about us during build season, and Main Line Life is coming to interview us again tomorrow about winning the Highest Seeded Rookie and Rookie All Star Award at the Philly Regional. Also, KYW radio news interviewed our driver at the Philly Regional, so we also have some publicity from that. I think there is another article or two, but I don't remember them...

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We finally had a dedicated press release parent to manage it this year, so we had almost weekly coverage in the (weekly) town newspaper as well as biweekly in the county paper and an article or two in the state paper. Last year, we had a few articles and a short piece on the state cable news network.

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we've been in the school newspaper twice, both times were 100% incorrect

and the local paper once...very correct, and i'm glad.

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Luckly, at my school, three team members are on the school newspaper. So the news is always right and when something great happens we are always in there. Our win at Chesapeake is going to be the front page story in this month's issue. :)

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The only thing that's missing is our school newspaper. We're also working something about the Philadelphia Regional to put on our school's tv channel.