Thread: have any teams had any luck approaching local malls for spaces to practice?
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Re: have any teams had any luck approaching local malls for spaces to practice?
I'm surprised noone else from 237 have mentioned this, but we did one at the Brass Mill Center back in 99 or 00 (it's getting to be so long ago I can hardly remember.)

I don't think the management really understood what we said when we asked "to set up a booth and drive our robot around in front of it", and it took a lot of convincing to get done. I would suggest sending along a picture of what you would like to do to give them a better feel of what will happen.

Attaching pictures of other mall setups (like GUS') may convince them further that this is not as much as a far-out idea as it sounds, if other malls have agreed to do it.

I would discuss liability, and after the demo occurs, send a thank-you note with a picture of the robot on display at the mall. Not only should you have a picture of the demo anyway, but it's something cool for the mall to display to show that they care about the community.
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