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Re: pic: 1346 at Science World

Oops... my apologies... I had assumed the description I wrote in the media section was going to show up here.

For the past few years we've been taking our robots out to Science World, the local (Vancouver) science/technology hands-on interactive science museum/centre thingy as part of their "robotics invasion" weekend, and this year I thought I'd post a picture from it.

We build the "corral" from 10' long 2x8"s so that we can let the young guests take a hand at driving the robots. Even some of the "no so young" guests want to try going for a drive... particularly with the mecanum drive machine from last year. (The green glow is from left over cold cathode lights from the vision targets the past couple of years... a far better use than leaving them on the shelf.)

It was particularly fun for the youngsters to get to bounce nerf balls off the wall, and a great opportunity for our students to get out and talk about the team and FIRST in general. Although BC has a thriving FLL community, and a growing number of FTC teams, we've only got three FRC teams at the moment, so it is important that more people hear about FRC if we want to get more teams involved.

I don't know what other teams do when they put their machines on public display, but I can assure you that giving people a chance to drive the big robot is a definite draw.

Jason
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