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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/Please give us your feedback on FIRST Announcement of 2 Champions
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This is why in the survey to the first question, I said that I was ambivalent about the split, and provided the same detailed comments as to why. Of course, the financial implications of such a move would need consideration as well - there's team travel to more events, more event registration fees (you can't put these events on for free, and the money has to come from somewhere), more time off school for students and teachers, more time off work for mentors, etc. All in all, I think that this was messaged poorly, not that it was a poor decision. A lot of companies make that error - they make the correct decisions for the long term viability of the company/program/whatever and then completely mess up the messaging around it, making it seem as though it was a hastily made decision with no thoughts as to consequences. All in all, for a team PR person, I think that this is an excellent case study - getting exposure to the real world via FIRST ![]() |
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I'd love to see a distribution graph of this figure. I speculate it's heavily offset toward the low end by a large quantity of teams that attend only one event. For teams who attend championship, I imagine their annual expenses can easily reach double this number, if not more.
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Houston has a major international airport. St Louis doesn't. Tel Aviv flights look about 300 cheaper. Sao Paulo is about 100 cheaper. Also all those Canadian teams heading to Detroit.
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Here's a question I found very difficult to answer:
How important is meeting celebrities at the event(s)? Being in the presence of People Magazine type celebrities means pretty much nothing to me, and I suspect that typical robotics students and mentors are less impressed by media superstars than are the general public. In that sense, it would get a zero on the importance scale. On the other hand, people like the President of the United States, or the head of NASA, or a major tech CEO is a bit different. I would like to see those people at the event. (The President via live video, if possible. Actual presence requires too much security.) It's not that I think those people are cooler than rock stars or quarterbacks. That's not it at all. I want our event to be so important, so significant, so worthy of attention that those people think it's worthwhile for them to come to us. If the President pays attention to us, other people will pay attention to what he pays attention to. I want tech CEOs to show up not because they are billionaires and I want our kids to get a chance to be in the same room them. I want them to realize that this is a rare opportunity to advertise in front of an important audience. They know that the best engineers of the next decade are in their audience, and they want those people to have a favorable impression of their company when they start looking for jobs after graduation. When it comes to the media megastars, (like Will I Am for example) they can play a role, too, but not in an "I want to meet them" sort of way. Those people, for better or worse, draw attention. If having those people present draws the attention of the world on us and on our kids, then that's fantastic. In other words, I want the event to be worthy of attention, and the presence of celebrities can help draw the attention the event deserves. In that sense, celebrity presence is at least an 8 out of 10. |
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So with more events could First not get the cost per event down or have we have just come to except an event cost 4-5k? I would like to see a cost breakdown from First.
If districts are Saturday and Sunday then school would not be missed. By diluted I mean that the prestige of the event. If every team can go to worlds what makes it special other than teams from all over are there? I disagree with the buy in for worlds as well. We are a team that must qualify on merits not money! STL is an international airport. The district model will cost our team the same amount as two regional s and worlds. |
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Same. I used the last question box to explain that there are some very serious issues with their claim of reduced costs. Flimsy claims backing questionable decisions tend to look very bad to a very intelligent community.
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