Taking FIRST to the public!

[wendymom]

What a great idea. I can't wait to hear about the impact it has on your community.

[Stephi Rae]

This sounds like an awesome idea! One question, are you paying the movie theater (if so, approximately how much does that cost?), or did you get them to donate the screen time? WOW... this is really cool. Major props to you and your team.

[Greg Marra]

I can't get either promo video to play for me. Are there direct Google video links?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

I can't get either promo video to play for me. Are there direct Google video links?

Yeah, it won't start for me neither.

[JohnBoucher]

Very cool. Works here

[Cartwright]

That's really cool. I think that live action things like movies will probably best for getting people's attention. Maybe malls would be good places to spread FIRST too because of the massive amount people that go to malls.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

I can't get either promo video to play for me. Are there direct Google video links?

It works in Internet Explorer. I don't know why it doesn't work in my Firefox. It displays the Google player, but no video.

[falconmaster]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

It works in Internet Explorer. I don't know why it doesn't work in my Firefox. It displays the Google player, but no video.

Yes I know that is a problem. Wish I had a solution......

[falconmaster]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

I can't get either promo video to play for me. Are there direct Google video links?

here is the direct video link
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...99857628987275

[falconmaster]

Originally Posted by Stephi Rae

This sounds like an awesome idea! One question, are you paying the movie theater (if so, approximately how much does that cost?), or did you get them to donate the screen time? WOW... this is really cool. Major props to you and your team.

That is the bad news....It cost us $5,000.00 for the one month. We went out and had twenty five of our team members raise $200.00 each (10-$20 donations) We are hoping to show that maybe FIRST headquarters can get some friends of theirs at Google to maybe pay to get it in theaters across the country, but first we have to show it works.

FIRST puts out these great videos and only FIRSTers see it, so we though we need to get it where it can be seen by the public.

[Laaba 80]

This is really cool. I just finished watching the video, and it really is very well done. Great job to whoever created it. It is also a great way of spreading the message, at a common social place. Great idea!!
Joey