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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
Parents showed up and took their kids home. The usual greeting we get. We'll be lucky if we get mentioned in the local paper (we got a one paragraph side story fro winning FLR and a big ad from the regional commitee a week later).
FIRST has a long way to go to get into the public's short attention span.
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I know this might be pretty rough for some people but hey... It's the truth...
Sometimes you cannot expect FIRST to do everything! [Sure they are amazing for pulling off what they do... but they have a full time staff of what... 30 people?]
It's hard to get "positive" events [like the complete and utter awsomeness of FIRST] into todays news between the stuff they see as "good" news... you know... shootings, murder, accidental death, the MJ trial... If you want your team to have better publicity, You/Your team needs to start making the connections with the local paper, radio, & news stations before the events... Make it your goal to get them excited about the program.
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Back to the topic...
It was a rather quiet return this year for MOE as everyone was exhausted... especially since we took a bus down this year instead of flying. We left at 10:00pm from Atlanta and got back to Wilmington ~1:00pm. I ended up lying down ~2:00 on Sunday and slept straight through till 6:00 monday morning... almost missing getting to school on time because my alarm clock was still in my luggage.