Championship 2008 - Atlanta - Your Thoughts Please

[ebarker]

Originally Posted by Zyrano

JKeep in mind that the national competition is as much of a showcase of the entire first program to sponsors/potential sponsors/government officials as much as anything else, that's why governers, CEO's and such are well represented at the event.

In addition to showing GP to FLL and FTC, the showcasing is another feature of the A-B plan I outlined above.

The showcase still works. Recently in Atlanta we didn't really focus on the robot competition because our design, while reliable was simply not competitive. We spent about 75% of our efforts working to promote FIRST, providing a lot of student tour guides and moving guests and VIPs around.

So from my experience in the program I think that the VIP's that are there would not be aware of nor really care that there is (B) court activity going on the the back room. There experience would not be impacted.