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Re: Explaining the FIRST Competition to Others...

While my shpeel definitely varies person to person, I do have a general game plan:

-The programs FIRST offers and an oversimplified overview of them relating the programs to sports using descriptors like JV and Varsity.

-Then I dive into FRC, I state the basics of the challenge, the time constraint, the game format and tournament format.

-Then I stress the roles that the students and mentors play and talk about my personal experiences in FRC.

Then I'll answer questions and try to build a conversation around robotics to deepen their understanding of the facts that their ears were just assaulted with.

And of course, I have a meme for this because I always feel that I don't get the full message across.



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