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Re: Round Robin on Einstein
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Originally Posted by JaneYoung View Post
The speeches are an opportunity for those whom FIRST develops partnerships with to be in the spotlight for a bit. That time in the spotlight is like the sponsor sticker on the robot.
There are no easy answers in managing the time.
The root of that problem is that only 2 times a year in FRC is the event given to a global audience with the soapboxes at each leading to a lot of talking.
Kickoff, & The Championship Event.
(I know some other events are webcast, but none get as much viewing time as these 2 I'm willing to bet anything on that.)

To solve this, maybe FIRST or the general community can organize a suppliers/sponsors/supporters summit to be broadcast to the FIRST community as a quarterly broadcast, or even in e-mailed video format to alleviate some of the speaking during the big show.
Youtube & many other media oulets exist, let's use them for their educational purpose & throw some speeches up there for example.

I know The Championship Event & Kickoff, & the program is not "all about the robots", this is certainly true, but what draws us in to the FRC program, and the Kickoff, & the Championship Event?
Not the promise of hearing a speaker talk (no matter how great they are) but the promise of some exciting matches on the competition playing field, & the possibility of seeing your own team make it to the big show & go all the way. (of course all while being inspired by science & technology)

I guess what I'm trying to say here, is let's not criticize any speakers, or the time of their speeches, or their failure to "reach the intended audience", because they deserve to be there as much as we do after all the support they give the program, but let's strive to find a nice balance of speaking & competing while not favoring one over the other, but also knowing that each has it's place in the grand picture & try to find how the two have in the past & refine how they may be able to compliment each other in the future.

If a moderator wants to move all the posts in here referring to speech vs. robot time discussion to another thread since we've strayed from the original round-robin format proposal here, feel free to do so.
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