Did someone work on robot overnight?

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Matt D

That was us, team 254. And it was our real robot. "Oh no!" you say, "the cheesy poofs must be cheaters who take their robot out to work on it overnight.

Actually it was for an interview on CNN headline news with Dean Kamen. We were accompanied by FIRST staff members, and Dean Kamen. We were also not allowed to work on it (most of the time it was just sitting there by itself). Our robot was promplty escorted back to the pit area. Don't worry we couldn't have worked on our robot even if we wanted to, which we didn't.

Acutally we saw you guys while eating dinner, and Dean too. Our whole team was like 'WTF? Why is that robot out?' Then Dean rides by, and we still don't make the connection, then we see on the big TV the FIRST thing on Headline News, then we were like "OOOOHHHHHHH!!!!"

[Mike Martus]

Often each year there are media opportunities that arise at the last second. One such event happened with our team in New York(I think 2000). Four robots left the competition and were featured on Good Morning America (set up the night before and filmed the morning of). Each team provided two students to demo and drive. I was the only adult and was in charge of the robots ( I was a guard ) to make sure they were not damaged during transport. FIRST delayed the Saturday start time to allow robots time to return after the TV segment.

Soooo, it is quite common and FIRST is very careful to make sure no team gains an advantage.

You grab every media opportunity you get to spread the word of FIRST.

[Matt Leese]

Originally Posted by Mike Martus

Often each year there are media opportunities that arise at the last second. One such event happened with our team in New York(I think 2000). Four robots left the competition and were featured on Good Morning America (set up the night before and filmed the morning of). Each team provided two students to demo and drive. I was the only adult and was in charge of the robots ( I was a guard ) to make sure they were not damaged during transport. FIRST delayed the Saturday start time to allow robots time to return after the TV segment.

It was 2001 I believe.

Matt