Championship Conferences - Who Goes?

[jweston]

Originally Posted by CMBrandon

Who goes to these/how many per session?

Our students and mentors go to these. We typically review the conference schedule prior to the trip, do an interest sign-up, and then try to build as much accommodation into our schedule as possible. Some students and mentors don't go to any, often by choice. Some just go to one. Several go to as many as three or four.

Originally Posted by CMBrandon

What do you think would be a good topic to propose?

A better question might be to ask yourself what area of knowledge do you feel comfortable giving advice in that would be useful to teams? What kinds of frequent questions come up on CD or other FIRST forums that could be helped by a 1-2 hour presentation?

Originally Posted by CMBrandon

What do you think about CM suggesting a "How to do marketing" seminar in place of something PC related?

FRC definitely has a business side that can leverage marketing. Non-profit robotics is expensive. Most teams rely heavily on attracting sponsors. A team's marketing can make a huge difference in their sponsor support.

If you haven't already done so, you might want to look at the list of last year's conferences to get a sense of past conference content (download it before FIRST decides to take it down):
http://www.firstchampionship.org/sit...scriptions.pdf