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Re: FIRST MAGAZINE help an alumni!

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Originally Posted by grego
All of this of course is pending my teacher’s approval so I also need good persuasive arguments to show I’m not catering to an over specialized audience and my idea can have broader appeal.
I think this could be a show stopper for your idea. There are approximately 1000 teams? most members are HS students. How many HS students buy magazines related to HS activities (sports, clubs....).

FIRST is a very specialized community, and to make it even more difficult for you all the "news" comes primarilly from one source: FIRST itself.

I think FIRST could publish a quartly newsletter - that might fly.

But a supermarket rack magizine for FIRST? Thats going to be a tough sell (primarilly due to the demographics).

To get a broader appeal you would have to hit hobby and educational robotics in a wider scope - take in the smash em up competitions, stuff like the DARPA challenge last year. FIRST would be a part of that scope, instead of being the whole pie.

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