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[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by IA-Howitzer

O well, I was too late to find out about this thread to vote...

It's ok we won anyway. Just make sure you watch the show.

[Jay H 237]

There was just a story about this on PBS with Jim Lehrer. It was filmed in Atlanta and while they didn't describe FIRST they did show a bit of the competition and an interview in the pits. They also interviewed Amadou's teammates with the large FIRST banner hung outside in the background.

They may post it later on PBS's website. I didn't see anything when I just looked. The story was aired at 7:45 pm tonight. The timing was amazing, I'm just flipping channels when I run across them talking about Amadou and showing an Aim High match going in the background.

[ahirsch2589]

i was right next to the lady as she was filming the story, it was originally on the today show. she was filming from the room on the 2nd floor overlooking the pit area

[Rich Wong]

**FIRST EMAIL**/FIRST Wins in a Landslide
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Greetings Teams:

The votes are in................and the winner is FIRST!

FIRST received the most votes for this Friday's CBS Assignment America, so please be sure to tune in this Friday to CBS News at 6:30 pm. More details can be found at the following link:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...in1276706.shtm

Thanks to the entire FIRST Community for turning out the vote.

Go Teams!

[Morgan Gillespie]

6:30 eastern time? I wouldn’t like to miss it because of a time zone misinterpretation.

[Greg Ross]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

They may post it later on PBS's website. I didn't see anything when I just looked.

It's there now: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/j...tion_5-2.html#

[Scott Shaw 237]

I just saw the segment on CBS. It was definitly well done and shows the struggles that Amandou had to over come to do what he loves most, FIRST. Definitly inspiring.

[K.Shaw]

eh like always it was short, but it was pretty cool to see some Atlanta action on a huge station like CBS.

[Michelle Celio]

I missed it =[ Do they air the segments twice? Are they available online?

[spears312]

Just saw it as well. It was a pretty nice report. There may not have been a lot of robot action in it, but anything we get is good, and I think the the real story and subject matter was more important.

[Billfred]

I saw it--it was a very nice piece. Perhaps some folks would gripe about them only talking about the competition itself, but I liked the way it was covered.

[Steve Howland]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1595837.shtml

The video posted in the right column in case anyone missed it!

[StephLee]

It was pretty well done; I liked the opening line..."This is a story about a robot, but also not..." or something like that. To be honest, that fits FIRST itself pretty well, even though that wasn't their intention.

I didn't tune in until 6:45; lost track of time and nearly freaked when I thought I missed it. Luckily for me, they didn't air it until about 6:50.