Hurray! A reporter that understands FIRST!

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Originally Posted by Jay H 237

I just want to mention that the Sunday Republican-American had a photo spread of the competition on page 5B. No story, just captions under the photos which included teams 237, 999, and 1071. It is nice to see it got in more than one local paper.

Unfortunately that's also all I got to see of the UTC comp since I've been sick since last Wednesday.

It seems like all the Waterbury-Republican cares about is when a team wins.. Anytime 237 wins it's in the newspaper.. When 1071 won.. It was in the newspaper.. And even those interviews are very small and hard to find.. Last year after we got back from Atlanta we tried getting a reporter to do an interview with us and it was like pulling teeth to make them show up... Finally we did get a picture and a small article, but even that was pethetic.. I don't mean to sound ungracious for the attention we did get, but for an area that has 5 teams, and a VEX team at Kennedy High School, its really pethetic that they give us no attention at all.. How can we keep our sponsor's attention if nobody else cares?

I have a few ideas for the 5 teams around waterbury to work together for attention and possibly sponsorship, except I need to think the idea through and talk it over with an engineer on 1071 first.. But I blurted out the general idea and he seemed a little bit interested so if the idea holds merit I'll send e-mails to the teams for their input.