Vlogging your FIRST experance

[Nawaid Ladak]

I think I have come up with a really good idea here.

First, I'd like to thank JVN for inspiring me with his build journal from this past season. I'd also like to thank the many vloggers on youtube to whom I am subscribed.

The idea is pretty straightforward, create a individual vlog during the 2011 FRC Season.

There are a lot of benefits to doing this. For example, doing this daily would give people outside FIRST, or people interested in doing FIRST, an idea of what it's like on a day-to-day basis during an FRC Season. It would give teams an idea of how other FRC Teams come up with their robots/designs/strategies*, along with how various other teams operate on a daily basis during the season. it would give your team an idea of what exactly you're thinking (this might be a good thing or bad thing). It would also give you a chance to reflect on your FIRST experiences.

I think this project would also show FIRST's raw emotional moments, high and low. It would also be a excellent recruiting tool to get kids in your local school involved, or as an introductory video for newbies to acclimate themselves to the build season environment, before kickoff.

I think the coolest thing would be to have multiple people from the same team vlog so that there are multiple viewpoints to a season on a given team.

So what does the ChiefDelphi community think about this idea, and is anyone else up to the challenge?

I know I'll be doing this next season. Hopefully I'll have a few people doing this as well so we can all share the experience.

*= I understand this may compromise some of your team secrets, but posting your vlog entries even after build season would work; the same experience in most situations would still exist.