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Originally Posted by MysterE
Can you imagine if thousands of FRC teams took one day between build and competition to show off their robot - regardless of if it revealed a flaw in their design?
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Not quite the one day thousands of robot demo but we just were part of a week long promotion/fundraising event.
McDonald’s Restaurants of Hawaii held a fundraising event for Hawaii FIRST teams. Across the state between Mar 17-23 local FRC teams held robotic demos at their local McDonald's. Most of the demos were held on the weekend of the 23rd.
http://metrooahu.hawaiinewsnow.com/n...uffin-purchase
There were potentially 29 teams showing off their robots over that week. We were unable to show off our competition robot since it was already crated and on the boat to the HI regional. We did bring our practice robot as well as a few of our Vex bots. An excellent time was had by all. We had great interaction with the community handing out information as well as several different coloring books we make for the kids. And perhaps some possible recruitment of future technology leaders happening..
This very gracious donation resulted in over 40k dollars. Every local FIRST team receiving about $1300.
This really was a great fusion of local sponsorship and community spotlighting of educational robotics.
McDonald's of Hawaii also announced an additional 1000 to each Hawaii team traveling to the world championships..
"I'm lovin' it!"
Mahalos to McDonalds and Friends of Hawaii Robotics. Without your hard work and support there would be far fewer FIRST teams in Hawaii.
Aloha!