[Conor Ryan]

Have your students there, excited and actively engaged. That'll get their attention.

Have some well spoken mentors there to give the details and really close the deal if you need to explain things further, let the students get the short responses.

If you have the time, change some things on the robot that will make it more demo friendly, slightly longer autonomous modes, dancing robot routines, bring your tshirt cannon, anything to impress a crowd.


Overall, the key point to having a good demo is to have some very quick, concise answers to some simple questions. You got about 5 seconds of their attention, just set up the conversation so they are asking more questions.




Here's a sample of how the coversations with any VIPs will go...

-What is the competition? "We build robots! Its a new challenge every year, right now we are designing a robot to throw a frisbee."

-What are the rules? "Pick up a frisbee, throw it in a goal, goals have different point values"

-So its like battle bots? "Its against the rules to damage other robots"

-What does it do? "Score as many points as we can, we get a bonus if we can climb up a pyramid at the end of the round."

-Where do you compete? Well we have a regional coming up ____, but we hope to qualify for the world championship in St. Louis, we'll get to play 400 teams from around the world.

-Hey Mr. Governor, want to see something cool? **run autonomous program** "Yeah we wrote that, the robot is driving itself."


***Adapt all of these responses for the game that the robot you have on hand is playing.