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Originally Posted by Bongle
That's fantastic. It'll be interesting to see if non-FIRST (people other than teams, their sponsors, and their families) attendance goes up at the AZ regional.
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Well, we hope that will happen, but we are also doing it so students, parents, teachers will become aware of the FIRST program and start asking, "Is there a robotics program at our school? Why not?" The Marketplace theaters are located at the Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale area and we have a lot of high schools in those areas that do not have teams.
Also we are hoping the public exposure will create recognition and interest in the TV, radio and print media.
Arizona is a large state. Most of the AZ teams are from the Phoenix area and a few from the Tucson area. This year there is a new team from the Flagstaff area. It is very difficult to recruit teams in the rural areas. We are hoping that we will receive strong interest at the Marketplace theater so we can propose a campaign in the rural and small town areas of Arizona.