Safety Video award

[dpeterson3]

How do teams submit safety videos for the safety video award. I looked through the awards documents and First's site and didn't find anything on a safety video award. Where is it?

[Akash Rastogi]

Isn't the award for having the best safety video that it is played during kickoff? IIRC

[EricH]

Note: this is not an award. It's a challenge.

Search "safety animation" on the FIRST website. Your challenge is to submit a safety animation (note the "animation" part). The best animation is shown at the Kickoff. Submission the past few years has been to send a DVD by snail mail; the 2010 safety animation challenge details haven't been released yet.

[dpeterson3]

So basically, a video gets us nowhere. It has to be an animation.That seems pretty pointless. I guess our video will be a youtube only video now.

[McGurky]

Have you looked at any of last years safety animations? Before you go calling it pointless I would think about all of the people who put hundreds of hours into the animation to make it perfect.

-McGurky

[EricH]

Originally Posted by dpeterson3

So basically, a video gets us nowhere. It has to be an animation.That seems pretty pointless. I guess our video will be a youtube only video now.

Not pointless...You now have a pretty good base to work from to animate, and you have the software to do the animation. What's more, you can use the video to train team members on safety, increasing chances at the safety awards. If you want to give the animation a shot, start now, using the video as a base for motions.

Also note that the requirements for the safety animation haven't been released yet. You know what's really pointless? Doing something for a contest when you don't know what the rules are. That would be like building an arm robot to play Lunacy...

[annie1939]

Remember there is also the UL safety award at the regionals. Take your video to the regional and display it at your pit. Hand out copies to other teams. Show it to your team. Make sure the safety judges see it. If suitable, take it out and show it to other schools in your area or to Boy Scout/Girl Scout troops. Then you can bring that activity into your Chairman's presentation to show your involvement in the community.
Nothing is ever wasted. Many teams don't realize how much they have really done in working towards the Chairman's award because of lack of communication between subteams. Last year we got counted off because we didn't have an organization chart. Well, we did have one, but the subteam in charge of making the presentation didn't realize that. And I didn't think to give them a copy.