FRC booK behind the design

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Originally Posted by Siri

Might FIRST be convinced to get behind it again somehow?

Basically you have a great idea called 'incentivizing the team to make a submission'.

Let's try this idea.

Invite teams to make a quality submission to the editors. The top ten or so entries are then handed to traditional magazine editors. The magazine editors might then consider covering the design at the Championship for publication.

Several things will happen. 1) the e-book editors and the FRC design website gets content, 2) The magazine gets content, 3) FIRST gets coverage, 4) the submitting team gets coverage.

As an example, consider this article for Popular Mechanics

There were some print articles with teams in them last spring that had projects related to the FIRST Future Inventors Award. The is no reason not to cover interesting FRC robotics.

Nothing like a little incentive to get things done.