Questions at demos

[dhitchco]

When doing demos of your robot in the off-season, make sure you are PROACTIVE by doing the following:

1) Tell people (before they even ask) that "this is NOT BattleBots. Each year the robot has specific tasks to complete and we only had six weeks to design and build the robot to do those tasks"

2) Tell people (before they even have a chance to ask) that "this is part of an international competition amongst 1,000 high schools and was created by Dean Kamen, the guy who invented that 2-wheel Segway transporter used by the Post Office".

3) Tell people that your school learned a lot from the experience in being part of FIRST and that you REALLY need their help!

***Moral of the story: This is like an industrial trade show. You are there to SELL yourselves to the people seeing your robot demo. Don't let them ask the "dumb questions" like battlebots, etc. Be proactive to them; not reactive.