FIRST Parody Fatigue and other Media Things [long]

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Originally Posted by XaulZan11

^This. Would you tell a rookie team "your robot struggles just do drive and looks horrible, can you stop playing since it makes all of us look bad to the potential sponsors and media?"?

I really hope my post didn't come off saying that I discredit the work of these teams with little video experience, because I can admit that I started in a similar place. I can also acknowledge that Jess' point "The method may not always be ideal, but the act of inspiring in new ways is always good," is very true.

What I am afraid of is that these contests provide students with a few one off opportunities to make a video and then forget about making more videos because their team might not think it is important enough or because they lack the drive to continue. FIRST will always be robots first, but if they get past that phase and make videos on a regular basis I will be ecstatic because it means people are working to achieve something that I didn't when I was a student.

Originally Posted by Carolyn_Grace

This year, with the expansion of our committee, we have been able to up the professionalism of our videos. The students now have professional and college A/V people mentoring them. Here's our videos from this year so far: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...PrEcVFsO4KZ7qJ

Hey some of that is me!