[rogerlsmith]

Yes, I am familiar with The Blue Alliance. I've been to their site in the past, tried out their podcast and just went back to see if I missed anything. Their site is great, however it seems to be more of a "scouting" or learn about your opponent type of site. This is great and serves a needed purpose. However, most sites I am familiar with all seem to fall into the same category - teams helping other teams.

FIRST Objective is different; we're trying to get more teams started, which is what Dean talked about in Atlanta. FIRST Objective is designed to be fun and exciting for students, mentors, teachers, etc... but is meant to help other schools see how fun and exciting FIRST can be. Not only does FIRST Objective have lots of videos of competitions, we also have some great team promo videos, hall of fame videos, animations, and I hope teams will begin recording their Chairman's Award presentations and adding them as well.

Beyond the videos, we have forums, blogs, users can have their own space for photos and comments. Registered users can also send instant messages to each other through the messaging system.

Check it out, if you like what we're doing, then I encourage you to sign up and invite your friends (yes there's a feature for that too).

Thanks for helping me make FIRST Objective a successful tool that will encourage more schools to get involved in FIRST.

Sincerely,
Roger