Gearing Up! (FIRST documentary)

[OZ_341]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

I have been instructed that FIRST will be sending the procedures to the Regional Directors for the process to be followed for contacting local PBS stations (to ask to show the documentary). The RD's will distribute to their local areas.

Definitely wait for direction from FIRST before contacting a PBS station. There is some serious protocol to follow there.

However, we have been working closely with the folks at KETC St. Louis and it is OK to use your social networking skills to contact friends, family, other FIRST teams, sponsors, and others to let them know about the upcoming release. They are definitely at a point where they want the general public to know about the Facebook site and the upcoming Gearing Up website.

[Robert Cawthon]

Originally Posted by OZ_341

What you are thinking of was a partnership between PBS and FIRST to do personal interviews for promotional videos. You can find an example on this FRC Media page. http://www.usfirst.org/community/res...er.aspx?id=652
There is a video which is called "FRC Student Voices" which is an example of this work. Its a great video.

"Gearing Up" is strictly about the 4 teams involved, although they did often film other action.

New link for "FRC Student Voices" is http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...er.aspx?id=652 . Unfortunately, since I am not a student, even though I was interviewed, I must have ended up on the cutting room floor. Oh, well!

[xitaqua]

Hello All,

It is very cool on the documentary facebook we can post videos.
There is a video of one of the teams filmed for the documentary (Team 1706 ) past robots displayed at the school district office, does other teams have footage of their robots been displayed on the school district office ?

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gearin...793?ref=share/

Cheers,
Marcos

[RoboMom]

Times and media markets so far:

http://www.gearingupproject.org/where-to-watch/

[rsisk]

@CoachNorm on Twitter posted some information about Gearing Up on his blog: http://coachnorm.posterous.com/geari...first-robotics

[JB987]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

Times and media markets so far:

http://www.gearingupproject.org/where-to-watch/

Listing is incomplete...our local PBS in Las Vegas is showing the program on Oct 9 at 10:00pm and the 11th at 5:00pm. Our school district (5th largest in US) is distributing notification to all principals to share with students/parents. Can't wait!

[xitaqua]

JB987,

That is very cool !.
Do you now if the school district plans to have a "viewing of the documentary" ?.

I think the documentary is 1 hour in duration.......

I know in the past there was a showing of the documentary teaser at a community college in St. Charles, MO in the evening.

Cheers,
Marcos.

[OZ_341]

Originally Posted by JB987

Listing is incomplete...our local PBS in Las Vegas is showing the program on Oct 9 at 10:00pm and the 11th at 5:00pm. Our school district (5th largest in US) is distributing notification to all principals to share with students/parents. Can't wait!

The people at KETC are working very hard with a small crew to roll out the documentary and keep the listings up to date. It may take a while to have an accurate list and add more content to the website.

They'll be showing it in Philly on 9/24 at 10 PM on WHYY, Ch 12 . Can't wait!

[xitaqua]

Hello All,

I checked the schedule, it shows :

National WORLD 11/19/2009 6:00 PM ET
National WORLD 11/19/2009 9:00 PM ET
National WORLD 11/21/2009 5:00 PM ET
National WORLD 11/21/2009 11:00 PM ET


Does it mean all the PBS channels will be showing the documentary on 11/19 and 11/21 ?

Cheers,
Marcos.

[Jared Russell]

I was wondering the same thing. Your interpretation is the only one that makes sense to me, but it would be nice to get some official confirmation.

[rsisk]

I contacted KVCR and they are going to air "Geared Up". Here are the dates and times:
Monday, October 12 at 10am,
Monday, October 12 at 10pm and
Tuesday, October 13 at 6:00am.

KVCR is run out of San Bernadino Valley College in SoCal.

via
Dara Devicariis
Earth Science Teacher/Robotics Mentor at Colton High School/River Springs Charter School
on LinkedIN First Robotics Group

[OZ_341]

Originally Posted by xitaqua

Hello All,

I checked the schedule, it shows :

National WORLD 11/19/2009 6:00 PM ET
National WORLD 11/19/2009 9:00 PM ET
National WORLD 11/21/2009 5:00 PM ET
National WORLD 11/21/2009 11:00 PM ET


Does it mean all the PBS channels will be showing the documentary on 11/19 and 11/21 ?

Cheers,
Marcos.

I learned a little bit more about this. Apparently PBS World is an additional digital channel. Some local PBS affiliates have this and some do not. I did learn that WHYY in Philadelphia does broadcast PBS World. So if your cable package has PBS World, then you have these additional opportunities to view the show. When I get to my other computer, I will post a list of other stations that carry PBS World.

[xitaqua]

I might be wrong but I think the WORLD Channels is avaialbe by "air", you just need to be able to receive "digital" transmission.

My understanding is that some cities have "digital" channels, while others do not.......

[jratcliff]

According to the 'where to watch' web-page, it indicates that the documentary has already been shown in a lot of places.

Has anyone seen it and recorded it? Our team is one of the teams featured in the film and we would love to have a copy as soon as possible. It's not scheduled to show in our market for almost two months. I would hate to wait that long if its already been shown elsewhere.

Thanks,

John

[Dantvman27]

i watched most of it, it was alright, i think it needed to be longer in order to tell the story better, sort of a bit vague and broad, but it was very enjoyable