A World of FIRST Day 2011!

[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!

[Duke461]

Originally Posted by Cheerleader1073

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!

This might be a bit out there, but maybe we could get World of First Day T-shirts (for next year of course).
Just a thought,
-duke

[Walter Deitzler]

I plan in wearing my team shirt and one of my many FIRST hats. I will invite everyine I know on my team (or any team) to this event!

[klmx30302]

Currently letting everyone I know on my team about this, not that there isn't really a day I'm not wearing a team/first shirt to school or around town, but it would be awesome to see everyone wearing their team shirts!

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Cheerleader1073

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!

An idea for the online exposure that I just thought of before was to have some sort of universal "World Of FIRST Day" profile picture for Facebook. Or just say everyone should set their profile pic to the FIRST logo that day.

[Walter Deitzler]

Originally Posted by Cheerleader1073

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!

Over 5,200 attending, congratulations.

Less than 6 hours until WOFD begins, can't wait!

[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...

[rsisk]

I hope everyone will be posting pictures and stories about WoFD 2011. Can't wait to see the impact.

Who will be the first to get a picture posted on WoFD?
Most remote?
Largest group of FIRST shirts in a single picture?
Last picture posted on WoFD?

Let the celebration begin.

[vic burg]

I almost forgot to do this tomorrow! Well, today now, actually. I think I will wear only FIRST shirts the rest of the week for the heck of it! I have plenty!

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

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

I plan on wearing a FIRST shirt Friday (probably my 33 shirt) to drum up interest for TNT.