One of our local station in Maryland randomly did a FIRST report during the competition season. It was nice except for the fact that they did so little research into the program. Their report was centered around the New York Regional at Columbia University. They said that these competitions happen other places too, but they failed to mention that there was one in Virginia and Philly (both close by) and that there are actually teams in their area. They mentioned "We believe Woodlawn High School may have one of these FIRST teams". Our Parkvillle High School team was rather displeased with the segment because our school is only a few miles away from the channel's HQ, we are the oldest team in the state, and we had just won the NJ regional. The parents sent some nice letters explaining to them how stupid and short-sighted they were in not even seeing a decent FIRST team right under their noses. Rather embarrassed, they did a live-segment on their morning show "Don and Marty" that week with our team. That was very good publicity for FIRST I thought... but I still can't get over how short-sighted they were in the first place.
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Sorry for the random anecdote.... but yeah... I heard about that CNN thing too... apparently it was quite good.
WOOH... go FIRST... yeah!
~Hubicki~