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Originally Posted by ngreen
I thought the pink would be spark enough...Maybe if you win FIRST will make special pink championship metals for you guys.
I will agree it makes it easier for team to find support. It doesn't make it more possible for that team to spread FIRST a lot though.. Sure you will get the interest of business men and techies...mostly. Let's name programs FIRST has been on: CNN, NASA TV, Tech TV, CBS 60 minutes, Discovery Channel, ESPN2. We are trying to reach out to high school students and not everyone gets these channels (for instance I would have only been able to learn about FIRST through CBS) and most of these channels wouldn't have a giant viewing audience of people who can start FIRST teams and who will follow up. So it leaves us with the best way to spread FIRST still lies with the teams. And so the Chairman's probably does a better job at spreading FIRST. Until FIRST hits a more mainstream audience more often it will continue this way. I think people realize it is easier for their team to come home after winning a world championship and getting money and support from their community but it doesn't make it any more possible or more likely that they will come back and spread FIRST and its ideals. IMHO.
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here is a great reason why winning the national title is better. Most Schoolboards want to see results. Football, chess and ect... When i go visit a school and if there focus is on winning they like to hear from winners on how they too can become that good (not saying we are that good but it is perception). Ha HAaaaaa low and behold we have another plan and that is get the true word of first out. By getting a schoolboard or anyone that writes checks to a first comp i would bet my paycheck that i will get them involved. Once people see what kids really get out of it then they become firstalolics. But we live in a world where all anyone cares about is winning. HELL why we first started because i though it owuld be fun and we could win and we saw it on espn. But soon after going to my first few comps did i see what the real deal was.