Breaking the Geek-FIRST Bias

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by ali_rockon22

Don't emphsize so much on robotics. Tell them about other things that your team does, especally trips. And I haven't seen a bigger group of cool people then in comps.

Yeah but remeber back when FIRST was at Disney and teams reported problems with kids joining the teams just to travel to Disney and not really wanting anything to do with the robots? That isn't good for FIRST niether. i think the best thing a team can do toi spread the word of FIRST is to show pictures and video of what the build process constitutes and also show that there is more to FIRST than just building the robot. You are also building the team and yourself. The robot is just a tool to accomplish that goal.