Team 1114 on Degrassi

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Karthik

There'll be more of Team 1114 on Degrassi's upcoming episodes. I can't say too much, but in February expect to see a lot of Team 1114 (FRC and VEX, as well as students) featured prominently in an ongoing storyline. It should be an awesome way to expose robotics and FIRST to millions of teens across the world!

Ongoing plot line during build season? Maybe, six episodes long?

[kazzykaty]

wow! That is sooo awesome. I'm gonna start watching Degrassi now!
<3

[BandChick]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

Is that what Degrassi is about? I've never really watched this show before.

Originally Posted by wikipedia

Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series, set in the Degrassi fictional universe created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1980...

Degrassi: The Next Generation follows a group of students attending Degrassi Community School who face challenges common to teen life, such as self image, peer pressure, child abuse, sexual identity, self-injury, school shootings, teenage pregnancy and drug abuse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrass...ext_Generation

[Graham Donaldson]

Nice job 1114! That's an absolutely amazing accomplishment.

Originally Posted by dtengineering

Oh, if ONLY it had been Corner Gas....

Great job 1114!

Jason

Seconded! Is season 5 out on dvd yet? My family buys the dvd sets to see it down here in the states (or at least, in NJ).

[Mr MOE]

Karthik:

Fantastic job. This is a terrific way to get the word out. Looking forward to a little Simbot- Degrassi action! I know the show is very popular and deals with a number of real life teen issues.

[Karthik]

For hint about the storyline, take a look at this picture from the Degrassi website.

[dtengineering]

In awe, once again, of the marvel that is team 1114.

Jason

[love4hellokitty]

Wow!!!

very, very cool.
I'll have to see when Degrassi airs.

congratulations 1114! this is just further proof of your awesomeness (yes, I know that's not a word)

[Karthik]

This week on Degrassi...

In episode 805, which premiered on the-n on Friday, and re-airs this Sunday at 9:30 pm, as well as on CTV in Canada at 7:30pm on Sunday, Team 1114 had a few cameos, including:
- Two scenes with the students working on the 2005/6 1114 VEX Robot
- CAD images of the 2008 1114 FRC robot displayed on monitors in the background
- The FIRST: Behind The Design book being used as text book.

Here's a picture of one of the scenes from the Degrassi Website



It's pretty neat, the scene where they were working on their VEX robot at home was no longer than a minute, but involved three of us being on set for an entire afternoon. (The robot is actually being driven off camera by Simbotics' FRC driver, Brandon Pruniak)

Anyways, check it out if you're interested! (And be sure to watch the credits!)

[kevin.li.rit]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

Congrats 1114! As I've told you before this is a huge accomplishment. To my knowledge this will be the most publicity a single FIRST team has ever received. I look forward to seeing how your robots are incorporated into the episodes.

There was an hour long science channel documentary about 3 teams back in 2003(with 596 appearing in a brief shot).

[Anna B.]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Here's a picture of one of the scenes from the Degrassi Website

I saw what happened after above picture- someone let out the magic smoke!

[ATannahill]

Will the scenes including the robots be posted on line, I really don't want to spend an hour watching a show for about 5 minutes of content.

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by Coffeeism

There was an hour long science channel documentary about 3 teams back in 2003(with 596 appearing in a brief shot).

I've seen that documentary its well done, but I doubt it reached the hundreds of thousand (probably millions) of young people that Degrassi does.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

I've seen that documentary its well done, but I doubt it reached the hundreds of thousand (probably millions) of young people that Degrassi does.

Yup, millions. According to their media guide, Degrassi regularly pulls in over a million viewers for each episode worldwide.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Yup, millions. According to their media guide, Degrassi regularly pulls in over a million viewers for each episode worldwide.

<joke>
Wow, shouldnt those millions be doing something more useful than watching tv?
</joke>

Congratulations 1114.