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Originally Posted by RoboMom
Woodie describes the robot as "the campfire we all sit around."
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Agreed....I like your idea of training sessions for the kids; it is something we need to emulate. If you have some training materials to post, that would be helpful.
My elevator pitch is something like "My real profession (I'm a physician) is working with FIRST. I get to help inspire kids to get involved with STEM in the US and in Israel with the moral foundation of Gracious Professionalism."
That gets a response "And how do you do that?" Then I describe "a robotic competition based on a new game every year which requires kids and mentors to figure out the game, design, build and test a robot that is roughly 2 x 3 x 5 feet and 120 pounds within a 6 week time limit. The competition requires random alliances of 3 robots to work together to compete against a similar alliance." I give the example of a Regional Final in Tel Aviv with an Arab team's robot pushing a Jewish team's robot up a ramp so the whole alliance wins. "The kids get it!"
That makes for a very effective elevator pitch!