A World of FIRST Day 2011!

[dudefise]

This is a great idea... we should have one every year! I will definitely participate.

[Andrew Remmers]

I actually do this much more than I realize it Teams shirts are always fun to wear and people like to question what its about! I always enjoy talking about FIRST!

- Andrew

[Cheerleader1073]

Originally Posted by Joyride_67_1902

I actually do this much more than I realize it Teams shirts are always fun to wear and people like to question what its about! I always enjoy talking about FIRST!

- Andrew

Yep, I know how that is lol. Hey... Exploding Bacon! I'm from New Hampshire but I'll be starting at FIT in Melbourne in the fall, hopefully mentoring a local team (looking at 233 right now) but if not my freshman year then I'll at the very least be volunteering at the Orlando Regional .

-Gen

[Andrew Remmers]

Originally Posted by Cheerleader1073

Yep, I know how that is lol. Hey... Exploding Bacon! I'm from New Hampshire but I'll be starting at FIT in Melbourne in the fall, hopefully mentoring a local team (looking at 233 right now) but if not my freshman year then I'll at the very least be volunteering at the Orlando Regional .

-Gen

Sounds like good fun! 233 is a lot of fun to talk to, and I'm sure they are a BLAST to work with! Also have fun at FIT! But if all else fails for mentorship (sure it won't) Bacon is always accepting new members!

Anyway I have to get some CADding done for a Job Interview on Monday!

- Andrew

[Alex.q]

So I just had this thought: we don't have the FIRST logo on our shirts. Is this a problem. (Obviously, I mean in a wider context than this event.) How important would you consider displaying the FIRST logo on your team shirt? Does your team shirt have the logo, and if so, how big is it?

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Alex.q

So I just had this thought: we don't have the FIRST logo on our shirts. Is this a problem. (Obviously, I mean in a wider context than this event.) How important would you consider displaying the FIRST logo on your team shirt? Does your team shirt have the logo, and if so, how big is it?

Our team does have the logo on our shirts which for some seems like an oxymoron when at competition but when wearing it during the day, at demos, and other events it is a great way to get the word out. I have a FIRST pin that I wear on my work uniform and I have gotten a lot of comments from: my child was in their program, I know someone who works their, I saw them in the newspaper, etc.

I attend world of FIRST day all day errday with how many shirts, sweatshirts, and jackets I have!

[Cheerleader1073]

Originally Posted by Alex.q

So I just had this thought: we don't have the FIRST logo on our shirts. Is this a problem. (Obviously, I mean in a wider context than this event.) How important would you consider displaying the FIRST logo on your team shirt? Does your team shirt have the logo, and if so, how big is it?

I don't think this is a problem, in the simple case of making team shirts it's really what each team wants. I mentored an FLL team this year that got really simple shirts using only one color that we screen printed in a mentor's basement using our own printouts lol so we couldn't even do the FIRST logo well in one color (black) and it wouldn't have come out that well when we printed it out. On 1073's team shirts, yes, we do have the logo. We have it twice on the back across from each other towards the middle (top to bottom) on both sides of our list of sponsors (if that makes sense when I type it) and they're relatively small - no more than two inches tall.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Alex.q

So I just had this thought: we don't have the FIRST logo on our shirts. Is this a problem. (Obviously, I mean in a wider context than this event.) How important would you consider displaying the FIRST logo on your team shirt? Does your team shirt have the logo, and if so, how big is it?

Not at all, if I understand this event it is to start the conversation. I can't tell you how many conversations my 33 hat sparked over the last term at Kettering and it doesn't have the FIRST logo on it.

[Phoenix Spud]

Check out the FLL bog, I posted about "A World of FIRST Day 2011" there!

http://fllblog.wordpress.com/

[Cheerleader1073]

Hey Everyone!

It's pretty stellar to see how big this is getting after a day! We now have a blog that will function as the day's website at worldfirstday.wordpress.com. Comment and share away so we can generate some more buzz! Updates will be coming soon on that site for a Flickr account where people can upload photos of certainly wearing their FIRST stuff around that day, but there will be more opportunities to add photos as well, such as taking pictures wearing FIRST shirts in different places .

Thanks everyone for spreading the word!

-Gen

[Melissa28]

Love it!
Team 3161 members and mentors will definitely be participating

[mom-bot]

Now that the time is much closer (a little over two weeks) we need to remind everyone that this event is coming up.

Wear your team shirt to school, work or just around town for the day to stir interest in FIRST and your robotics team. It is still relatively fresh in some minds after the Wil.I.Am special last month, so this is just reinforcement.

We will be wearing ours!
How about you?

[Andrew Schreiber]

It is now occurring to me, why is this not on a Friday so those who work with dress codes could wear a FIRST related thing on their casual Friday?

[Cheerleader1073]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

It is now occurring to me, why is this not on a Friday so those who work with dress codes could wear a FIRST related thing on their casual Friday?

That occurred to me after I realized that there is such thing as casual Friday at an internship this summer... next year!!

Just an update - organically (mostly word of mouth/taking it easy and not posting a whole lot past the first week this year) we're about 500 away from 5000 attendees on Facebook. That's pretty STELLAR! so anyways, based on this year I'm looking for ideas for future years. Here's what I have so far, please let me know absolutely any recommendations having to do with any of this!

-Should be on a Friday (casual Fridays at Work, etc.)

-More online exposure about this (more continuous push, this year there was a lot of hype the first week and then no follow through... for future years we'll implement ideas like having the open Flickr gallery where people can post to and set up hashtags for people to post more photos, etc. to Twitter)

-Recommend to FIRST to make buying apparel easier on their site/have more options for people (mostly for supporters not associated with teams)

Thanks!

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

It is now occurring to me, why is this not on a Friday so those who work with dress codes could wear a FIRST related thing on their casual Friday?

I still think this would have been a much better idea...