How does your team plan outreach events?

[Pauline Tasci]

We decided what event to participate in by 2 simple questions, " do the people at this event benefit from having us there?" and "does this venture get FIRST and our team out there?" if the answer is yes, we try our best to attend the event. If an event calls specifically for a FIRST team.. we do try our best to go since usually there are more FIRST teams and getting to know other teams and check out their bots is always really helpful. Robots are not always part of events but I do try to bring it to every event I can, its a good wow factor, parents and kids always come up and ask about the robot which is a good conversation starter! As well, for Code Orange there is such a little amount of resources within out county that we always have to travel to San Diego or LA, so I say if you can work in your city most of the time, but do attend some outside your city.