Ibot Featured in Discovery Star Wars Special

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by opnickc

And from this footage of Dean Kamen, we know that the show's producers knew about FIRST, and simply chose to leave it out. Something about that is unsettleing to me.

In all honesty, I think it's amazing how much publicity FIRST does get as it is. I mean, 99% of the time when you hear Dean Kamen's name, you quickly hear something about FIRST. I'm actually surprised we see it so incredibly much. I don't think it really upsets me that they left FIRST out... some producers just don't know enough about it to want to include it. Their main focus was on the technology of iBot, and just because Dean Kamen is behind the iBot, it may not have been the appropriate program for FIRST to be brought up in.

Point is, I think we should be quite thankful for how much publicity networks to tend to give us, and the way this footage was focused on the iBot technology, I can completly understand why FIRST wasn't mentioned. Just another perspective to throw out there.

[jdiwnab]

Originally Posted by miketwalker

Point is, I think we should be quite thankful for how much publicity networks to tend to give us, and the way this footage was focused on the iBot technology, I can completly understand why FIRST wasn't mentioned. Just another perspective to throw out there.

I quite agree. FIRST gets plenty of publicity. Being on the Discovery Chanel would be cool and all, but they pack in so much into those programs that FIRST was crowded out. Dean might have mentioned something about FIRST, but it was probably edit out because of time. Not because the Discovery Channel doesn't like FIRST.

[opnickc]

Originally Posted by miketwalker

In all honesty, I think it's amazing how much publicity FIRST does get as it is. I mean, 99% of the time when you hear Dean Kamen's name, you quickly hear something about FIRST. I'm actually surprised we see it so incredibly much. I don't think it really upsets me that they left FIRST out... some producers just don't know enough about it to want to include it. Their main focus was on the technology of iBot, and just because Dean Kamen is behind the iBot, it may not have been the appropriate program for FIRST to be brought up in.

Point is, I think we should be quite thankful for how much publicity networks to tend to give us, and the way this footage was focused on the iBot technology, I can completly understand why FIRST wasn't mentioned. Just another perspective to throw out there.

I understand what you're saying, FIRST doesn't fit in with the iBot.

However, the day before on that show it was all about robots, including robots that students worked on, but no mention of FIRST.

As far as media coverage, it's impressive from the standpoint of FIRSTers, but think about how many people in the US still don't know anything about it. Not that it's FIRST's fault in any way, in fact FIRST does an extremely good job of getting the word out with the resources they have. It's the fact that FIRST isn't covered more or in more depth on the news and in programs like this.