Presenting to other Organizations

[Garret]

My team has been doing demonstrations to organizations other than our schools for quite some time.

We have done presentations at:
Barnes and Noble and a few other businesses (basically fundraisers)
Bring your kid to work day at HR Textron (one of our main sponsors before they got bought by another company)
Open Houses at the district schools
Local/qualifier FLL tournaments (one of our feeder schools runs a qualifier tournament)
State FLL tounaments
Sponsors
Local Libraries
Girl Scouts ...

In general when we run a demo we will give a spiel about the mission of FIRST and depending on our audience or demo type (we do FLL and FRC demos) we will then explain what the robot does.

Our demos to sponsors will generally be short in which we show them the robots and give a spiel about FIRST and of course thank them.

For the bring your kid to work day we ran both an FLL demo and an FRC demo. The first thing of couse is the spiel about FIRST.... then explain the FLL challenge or the FRC challenge (this depends on who your are presenting to: younger kids you show FLL, older kids FRC). We would then do a demonstration of the robot(s) doing whatever the game was. After we do the that we will then if time permits/if appropriate show the other robot, let the kids try driving and so on.

At FLL tournaments. These demos/presentations will go all day and are mostly showing the kids the robot and telling them what they get to look forward to in high school.

In general we set up demos/presentations that are appropriate for the audience that will present.

You can also do presentations through videos and other multimedia forms (eg announcments) for the purpose of recruiting from schools.

Our team is trying to become more active in our community and is recruiting from the 7 district high schools and the numerous Junior high schools (for next year)