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Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss
Sorry I wasn't more specific when I first asked. This specifically is what I'm curious about. How are you reaching out to the other teams to let them know about this?
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No worries!
A lot of our outreach last year came simply by word of mouth. We also ran a marketing campaign at the Smoky Mountain Regional, in which we had a big "billboard" in the lobby of Thompson Boling Arena that teams could sign. The idea was to show people how much potential there was to connect such a large number of teams!
We're really trying to up the ante this year. We've established a fairly active presence on Twitter, just so people know we're there, and we've created the mailing list we mentioned in our last reply to you. We started the list by literally emailing every team whose email we could find, again, to spread awareness. We keep up this mailing list by sending out routine updates regarding videos we have planned, how teams can involve themselves in our videos, and other happenings in our area that teams should be aware of!
Chief Delphi is something we'd like to really involve ourselves in this year. We plan to use this site by not only advertising our videos, but by actively participating in robot-related discussions. We're doing this to show others that we're not just a business group, we're a group of students who actively involve themselves in the engineering world, and by doing this, we think we can establish ourselves as a really legitimate source of information in the FIRST robotics world.
As a side note, Reddit is another source that we're very interested in involving ourselves in. A surprisingly large number of robotics members are on it!
Thanks for your questions! Again, if you'd like to subscribe to the aforementioned mailing list, email us at
smrvault@gmail.com!