[Harrison]

At the CR there was tons of media coverage...the place was crawing with TV crews, newspapers, even a couple people from radio stations.

All that has to happen is to get the word out (duh...lol). Anyone can send a letter to a pile of TV stations, newspapers, etc., just to tell them that the competition is occouring...Let them know about the scope of the competition, and they will come.

One thing my school did as well is we called up a local station and told them about the project. They came down to our school and did a story on us building the robot, and then they came to the competition and did a story on us competiting.

Now if my team can mange that, I would be scared to see what the CD's out there could do.

News people like news - FIRST makes a good story...Espcially on "Tech" channels. ie Tech-TV, Discovery...Sports channels...we all know ESPN...And then just plain old local channels.