Last year, I had to give out flyers and try to recruit or at least get some students interested in robotics during registration for the upcoming school year. And so many times I get this question before I even get to explain what it is....
"So, is it a lot like Battlebots?"
::sigh::
I explain the many great aspects of FIRST... from fundraising, to the build season, and especially "gracious professionalism." I also include a little information about the team, including the places we have competed in the past years (a big bonus with many people). And then I get this response...
"Why PINK?"
That I do not mind talking about.
Regardless, it is extremely difficult to persuade several students to join a robotics affilated team that does not destroy other robots. Seriously, there is no easy way to sum up what FIRST is to somebody new. I truely have to agree that they have to experience it. Sounds like taking drugs, and in a way, it is since it I am addicted to FIRST.