FIRST Promo in Theaters

[N7UJJ]

Originally Posted by Bongle

That's fantastic. It'll be interesting to see if non-FIRST (people other than teams, their sponsors, and their families) attendance goes up at the AZ regional.

Well, we hope that will happen, but we are also doing it so students, parents, teachers will become aware of the FIRST program and start asking, "Is there a robotics program at our school? Why not?" The Marketplace theaters are located at the Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale area and we have a lot of high schools in those areas that do not have teams.

Also we are hoping the public exposure will create recognition and interest in the TV, radio and print media.

Arizona is a large state. Most of the AZ teams are from the Phoenix area and a few from the Tucson area. This year there is a new team from the Flagstaff area. It is very difficult to recruit teams in the rural areas. We are hoping that we will receive strong interest at the Marketplace theater so we can propose a campaign in the rural and small town areas of Arizona.

[Eye-gor]

Good job! i find myself unable to reach the site, but such an effort deserves much praise. Huzzah for you!

[GUI]

Wow! You guys always amaze me in how much you do to spread the FIRST message, and this follows that trend. You are truly raising the bar for promoting community awareness.

[falconmaster]

If the website doesn't work, check back later, I think the site has exceeded bandwidth. I will have to see if I can fix that. Better yet...go see the movie! If you are in AZ of course.

[Wayne Doenges]

Just saw the 6 min. video. It was amazing
Keep up the good work.

[N7UJJ]

Wayne,

The 6 minute video was produced and distributed by FIRST. We edited it down to 1 minute and added the AZ info overlay on the list few seconds.

On the FIRST website http://www.usfirst.org/community/res...er.aspx?id=652 there are several videos (also check out the FLL videos).

We always have those with us so when we do demos, we have some professional video with us. The FLL ZOOM video is great for teachers and FLL kids.

We also carry DVDs with some of the FIRST videos and some of our own to leave with teachers, potential mentor groups or prospective teams.

Every kid it every school should know about FIRST. Then we will have a demand for a team (or two) in every school.