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Re: Breaking the Three-Day Bias
I've tried to describe it to people, and they all usually seem to understand that it's not just the three days at the competition, they do understand that lots of time goes into building the robots, but what they always miss is the fundraising and marketing.
Even while at big events, my town does a "Smithtown Day", where main street is closed, and local vendors setup booths along it, my old team gets space to fundraiser. And everyone sees, "wow, a robot, that must've taken a while to build!" But they don't understand why we're there, why we're trying to get out to the community, or why we're trying to find local companies willing to donate a couple hundred dollars to our cause. You get the rare person who gets the whole thing, but not often enough.
On the plus side, they all usually seem to understand the gneral idea of the Chairmans Award, and as far as I can tell, that's really the thing that the community should understand, because that's the thing that will be affecting them the most, if at all.
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