What's your FIRST Elevator Pitch?

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I usually start mine with:

"I am a mentor for a competitive high school robotics team"

That always seems to get their attention, because their response is typically to look at me and say "What??"

Then I get to roll into the pitch about FIRST robotics. A little bit of competition description, a lot of the inspiration angle, a laundry list of benefits for students/community/mentors etc.

Choose from one or more of the following:

Competition

• Robot teams form alliances to accomplish a challenge. The alliances change each round to encourage "coopertition" (this one encourages further discussion about what coopertition is).
• Imagine 50 teams of robotics students in a sports arena with all the glitz and glamour of a rock concert, its exciting, you have to experience it to believe it.
• You can walk around the pits and talk with the students as they work on their robots. You never have meant a greater bunch of students, they are in their element and love to tell you all about it.

Inspiration

• Its all about inspiring students in science and technology. Then, in a fake whisperThe robot competition is just a means to an end.
• Its a pretty cool concept, bringing together students and mentors, giving them a challenge and common interest, and everyone becomes a winner.

Laundry List of Benefits

• Its fun and inspiring
• Great opportunity for project based learning
• Another way to reach out to students that may have been left behind
• It makes us all smarter

Of course we always carry tri-fold brochures with us to have a take away for the person. I'll link in the tri-fold later, once I get it up to CD-Media