Showing school officals and business owners a regional

[Alex Cormier]

How shoud i go about bringing some professors of mine and a few school officials and later business partners to a regional? I have a few people already interested in attending FLR in week 2.

Im sure some have done this before in great sucess, so i ask the cd community, how was it done and was it suscessful? in turn i hope to be showing them a great time and what FIRST is about. Hopefully get the school involved and ready to want to build next season.

thanks in advance.

[Joe Matt]

First of all, let the regional cordonator know, they might be able to provide some VIP access for them.

Second, plan out the time there. Have them coming in for a match or two, get some kids to explain the game and their team, then move them through the pits (remember to bring safety glasses for them!), show them your robot (get students to explain!), and then show them anything else you find interesting (inspection row for example if it's on thursday).

Overall, give a structured professional presentation and you'll do great. Most of the time businesses will just be amazed even if you did it in your boxers and spoke in Klingon.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Joe Matt

First of all, let the regional cordonator know, they might be able to provide some VIP access for them.

Second, plan out the time there. Have them coming in for a match or two, get some kids to explain the game and their team, then move them through the pits (remember to bring safety glasses for them!), show them your robot (get students to explain!), and then show them anything else you find interesting (inspection row for example if it's on thursday).

Overall, give a structured professional presentation and you'll do great. Most of the time businesses will just be amazed even if you did it in your boxers and spoke in Klingon.

hmm.

so your saying there for like 2/3 hours? maybe 1 hour before the the liminatons rounds? then such?

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

hmm.

so your saying there for like 2/3 hours? maybe 1 hour before the the liminatons rounds? then such?

One or two matches to get the hang of it, and if you can plan at the last minute, make it so one of your matches is that. Be flexible and stuff.

[Alex Cormier]

With all that talk, i have decided to go with this video instead of the other 3 i shown.

[Alex Cormier]

Well i went to the HS just now to drop off the robot for the meeting. But the principle just informed me that todays meeting will be dept. leaders. and faculty meeting is next week. i wil be home for break next week. so all tihs was useless work, in the end all i did was hand out 2 pieces of paper to 65 faculty members. i also went to her office and talked with her monday, and exchanged a few emails yesterday. what a waste of time.


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[Dylan Gramlich]

so is the team still going to be started?!

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Dylan Gramlich

so is the team still going to be started?!

I dunno i am fed up with the principle at the moment. i will be very surprised if i ge any feedback from the papers that were dropped off into the mailboxes.