FIRST promo video for champs

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Originally Posted by DevenStonow

People constantly propose making one of these types of "viral videos" at a FIRST event, and frankly, I always immediately want to yell out "no". This was recently discussed in this thread. I'd make the argument that it's the "wrong type of recognition". It does nothing to further the message of FIRST and to the masses would just be interpreted as "nerds doing something silly". In my opinion, a video like this is much better.

What's wrong with that "type of recognition"? Each year, our team puts together a fun video showing all the cool stuff our robot did (including accidents/crashes) and adds some fun music. We show this to freshmen, who get motivated by cool robot action, and join the team. We show the morgan freeman video to the parents, who push their kids into joining the team.

FIRST being an activity for the masses is a great idea, but in order for it to come true, it really needs recognition, in any way possible.