A World of FIRST Day 2011!

[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?

[roboticsgoof95]

Originally Posted by Cheerleader1073

Hey Everyone

No matter how you're involved with FIRST, wear your shirt at some point on Wednesday, September 14th, so we can take the world by storm. FIRST logos should be everywhere... I want to see multiple numbers strolling around streets and stores, and high-fiving each other when they see each other . Let's make it so that people who aren't involved with FIRST ask questions after seeing the logo and name all day. Spread the word! Invite everyone you know from FIRST! This is in September in the middle of the week because everyone's back in school to show off their colors! Have work? Wear it before/after! Or just wear it to bed to still get in the spirit of it.

If you have Facebook, you can get the details, sign up as "Attending", and help a lot by spreading the word to get even more people to join in! Here's the link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=206714226032784

INVITE EVERYONE YOU KNOW IN FIRST! FRC, FTC, FLL, Jr. FLL, volunteers, staff, sponsors who might have a shirt, everyone! Share this on all your social media sites and let's get this thing going!

GREAT IDEA!!!!!

[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.

[Belly]

I have a FIRST belt, hat,chain, pendant, shirts, buttons. I wear FIRST wherever I go. Everyday.Without Fail. Proudly.
When asked about it I start out with: You ever seen or been a Segway?...etc

[LondonBoy29]

This sounds like a really great idea. I'm sure to tell all of the members of my team about it.

[Czukkiemonster]

Team 135 students, future students, mentors, parents, and alumni will all be participating
ABSOLUTELY love this!!!

[klmx30302]

As far as I know, every one on my team will be participating tomorrow. Team members were notified on our google groups, at our 1st friday meeting of the year, and i will re remind everyone who shows up at our training tonight.

[Nemo]

Maybe this could be a "first Friday of the month" type of thing instead of doing it once per year.

Around here, students apparently don't care if they look geeky in their robotics shirts, because my students wear them to school pretty often. It's fun to see those shirts in the hallways.

[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!