[Petey]

Originally Posted by Julia Magoolia

Last year Team 811 hosted a “Love Your Robot Day” at Bishop Guertin High School in NH to immerse the entire school in the spirit. Our team had tons of fun with this idea last season, and in the spirit of spreading the FIRST message, we’d love if your teams would join us in creating the first annual “NH Love your Robot Day”.
In 2004, Team 811 from Bishop Guertin High School began Love your Robot Day. We believe this initiative was a major contributing factor to our team’s success and our ability to recruit new team members. This year, our team is endeavoring to help other teams spread the word and expand their membership while expanding this event. We would like to invite all of the New Hampshire teams to be involved in Love your Robot Day.
What does this involve? Music, robots, creativity, and of course, doing our homework by spreading the FIRST message. Team 811 had “robotic” music playing over our school’s PA system in between classes. During lunch, one of our robots dashed around outside of the cafeteria greeting students and faculty. This, some clever marketing, and creative thinking enabled us to recruit MANY new students to our team, and increased interest in engineering within our school.
If your team is interested, and we hope you are, we’d love to hear from you! We will be working with local state representatives and the governor’s office to get this day acknowledged on a larger scale, and we need your help! Please have a team member contact Julia Metzler of Team 811 by email (g.magoolia@gmail.com) or pm me to get more information about Love your Robot Day. Additionally, if you have ideas, we strongly encourage you to share them with us and other contributing teams. It is our hope to eventually make this a world-wide event, with your support and enthusiasm.

Though we would like to make this NH event possible, we encourage all teams to try this. It really is a great way to spread the word. Again, contact me if you would like more information!

Team 811 is looking forward to hearing from you!

Feel free to contact Team 1073 through me via PM.

--Petey