[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Wetzel

FIRST isn't just a robot building competition. It is a person building experiance, that takes the shape of a robot building competition. Included in this is business planning to organize your team and raise funding, team spirit, learning how to get along with someone after spending far too much time with them in a high stress environment and much more.

Part of this is shown in the awards FIRST give outs, one of which is the animation award. Teams create a 30 minute animation, typicaly the goal has been along the lines of 'show the spirit of FIRST'.

These are the awards from last year. They may or may not change this year. The animation award is the Autodesk Visulization Award. My team has won it at a regional level for the past two years, thanks to the hard work of Lev to get the animation team organized, and Cohen for continuing that hard work.

Wetzel

30 second animation my friend.