Team News Paper Articles

[BandChick]

1089s been in the news, and we're hoping to be in the news some more!
Here's a link to our website, where all of our articles have been scanned and put into pdf format for everyone to read.

http://www.mercury1089.com/main/?page=news.txt

[N7UJJ]

Originally Posted by aksimhal

AMAZING!! How do you do it? We are a VERY small team and we want to publicize ourselves, for sponsorship, etc. reasons. If you have any tips, and tricks, I would really appreciate if you could let me know.

Thanks

It's really not magic. We write a lot of press releases. Keep track of reporter's email addresses and such.

We also do a lot: Scrimmages, FLL championships, several robot competitions. We send press releases before events and then we often send a follow up the day before and another a day after events with results. Your football team (or someone) sends in schedules and results. We do the same.

If someone on the team wins an award, we publicize.

We write articles and submit them to newsletters and magazines. We get a LOT of rejections, but every now and then...

We do a lot of presentations at schools, engineering groups, and service clubs. We let them know we have 1/2 or 1 hour presentations. People talk and the word of mouth advertising is effective. Someone in the audience may be a spouse of an editor.

Have people apply for every award: teacher of the year, city student of the year, etc. Publicity is a way of making the public aware of science, math, and engineering activities. The more everyone hears about FIRST, the better!

Our first two years we received almost 0 publicity. It's like finding sponsors, if no one knows about you, it's really hard. But eventually, we were noticed. Now we have people phoning asking about how we are doing or asking for comments. It's kind of like if a reporter is stuck, they have our contact information and they know we are "verbal".

When you do your Chairman's report, print a lot of extra copies and send them to everyone: school board, CEO's, news people, Oprah, local universities, etc...

You know the goofy morning news shows? Invite the personality or the weather person to come to a scrimmage or a regional practice and tell them you will let them drive it in a practice competition.

We also send press releases to the Spanish Outlets.

Make sure you give a lot of info and pictures to your school newspaper.

If you make videos or CD's, make hundreds of copies and send them to EVERYONE.

Invite your congressman to visit your school to see how you are way above average in science and technology activities and how important such programs are to the U.S.

Many radio shows do "remotes” Invite them.

Anything slightly newsworthy -- press release!

Anytime someone shows up, send a thank you email.


No magic, just persistence -- and a LOT of rejection.

[ScoutingNerd175]

Team 175 has been published in many newspapers over the years, usually when we win or place well. Today we were published in the Journal Inquirer. Unfortunately the headline read “Fermi's Buzz Robotics team takes second place in regional competition”. Good headline, except we won.

[Tetraman]

The Arctic Warriors have been usually called the Aztec Warriors in the papers.

[KTorak]

We've had a front page appearence (me actually) on a local daily paper and a weekly local paper. We've also gotten some articles in some local papers (probably 3 or 4) since ship date. Most of the information is pretty accurate as well.

[JennyB314]

Our team was in the Miami Herald and we were on a spanish channel, Telemundo 51.

[MrForbes]

The team was in the local paper again today....and I got to provide pictures! so be sure to take good pics of stuff you want people to see, you never know when you'll need them.

(the link below will show this article for a little while)

[irishninja]

We have been on NY1 twice, CBS 1, and a local area paper once. We have also been in our school paper(s), numerous times.

[KTorak]

Here is one of our articles. (with photos - with me - the one on the right was a large front page one Saturday of GLR!)

and another...

There are a few more as well, but I can't seem to find them online.

[Koko Ed]

We have been featured in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, Smithsonian, and the New York Times.

[cdfps]

This isn't really a newspaper article, but it is PR from the NYC 2006 regional.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/tv/videoS...814ec6d859b81f

[nparikh]

Hmm..

25's been in/on the broadcast media & print media many a times.

In the past, we've been on ABC's Good Morning America, CNN, etc.
This season, we've been featured in the Home News Tribune, our local Sentinel, the Las Vegas Times(I think this is what it was called), and more.

[aksimhal]

Originally Posted by N7UJJ

It's really not magic. We write a lot of press releases. Keep track of reporter's email addresses and such.

We also do a lot: Scrimmages, FLL championships, several robot competitions. We send press releases before events and then we often send a follow up the day before and another a day after events with results. Your football team (or someone) sends in schedules and results. We do the same.

If someone on the team wins an award, we publicize.

We write articles and submit them to newsletters and magazines. We get a LOT of rejections, but every now and then...

We do a lot of presentations at schools, engineering groups, and service clubs. We let them know we have 1/2 or 1 hour presentations. People talk and the word of mouth advertising is effective. Someone in the audience may be a spouse of an editor.

Have people apply for every award: teacher of the year, city student of the year, etc. Publicity is a way of making the public aware of science, math, and engineering activities. The more everyone hears about FIRST, the better!

Our first two years we received almost 0 publicity. It's like finding sponsors, if no one knows about you, it's really hard. But eventually, we were noticed. Now we have people phoning asking about how we are doing or asking for comments. It's kind of like if a reporter is stuck, they have our contact information and they know we are "verbal".

When you do your Chairman's report, print a lot of extra copies and send them to everyone: school board, CEO's, news people, Oprah, local universities, etc...

You know the goofy morning news shows? Invite the personality or the weather person to come to a scrimmage or a regional practice and tell them you will let them drive it in a practice competition.

We also send press releases to the Spanish Outlets.

Make sure you give a lot of info and pictures to your school newspaper.

If you make videos or CD's, make hundreds of copies and send them to EVERYONE.

Invite your congressman to visit your school to see how you are way above average in science and technology activities and how important such programs are to the U.S.

Many radio shows do "remotes” Invite them.

Anything slightly newsworthy -- press release!

Anytime someone shows up, send a thank you email.


No magic, just persistence -- and a LOT of rejection.

Thanks, No one on our team has ever written a press release before. Do you have any samples that we could take a look at?

Thanks
Anish

[Jon Jack]

Recently Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates and Milinda Gates visited our school and stoped by our engineering lab to see the progress of our robot. From what I know that visit should be on the Oprah Winfrey show sometime this month.

[Rohith Surampudi]

Originally Posted by jjack

Recently Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates and Milinda Gates visited our school and stoped by our engineering lab to see the progress of our robot. From what I know that visit should be on the Oprah Winfrey show sometime this month.

WOW...