Fans

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by EricH

As I recall, the same cheerleaders were with the team in Atlanta that year. (I think the team won a rookie award or something like that.) They helped 330 (and I'm not sure who all else) with a cheer or two as well.

One thing I find in FIRST is that there is alot of athletes and cheerleaders who get involved too. It's not just geeks who get into FIRST. I think because they can relate to the competitive nature of the event (I call FIRST high school NASCAR) and it's such an insane amount of fun. I'm not sure if FIRST will ever win over society as a whole (the changing of the games every year is intensely fun for those of us who participate in FIRST but I'm sure it's confusing to the average observer).

[Cooley744]

Since our team is extremely small this year, we are having a few of the team member's friends come and work on scouting and stuff. (Which is only like 4 people). Our fans that are comming and are not really on the team, but are at robotics meetings every once in a while because their friends are there. So in a way, we are having fans come, but they will actually know what to do, and will be an asset not a problem. We are hoping they will join after seeing a real competition.