Team 1114 on Degrassi

[Karthik]

This summer Team 1114 had the opportunity to form a new and exciting sponsorship with the popular teen drama "Degrassi: The Next Generation". Degrassi is the most popular Canadian show among teenagers, with literally millions of people tuning in each week around the world.

The latest season of Degrassi premiered Sunday night in Canada, and if you watched the opening credits carefully, you would have seen Team 1114's 2006-2007 World Champion VEX robot prominently featured. (The 0:21 mark, if you're that lazy.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMwyLbDeShQ
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/28674

This episode can be seen this upcoming Friday night in the US, on "the N" network.

There'll be more of Team 1114 on Degrassi's upcoming episodes. I can't say too much, but in February expect to see a lot of Team 1114 (FRC and VEX, as well as students) featured prominently in an ongoing storyline. It should be an awesome way to expose robotics and FIRST to millions of teens across the world!

As the major episodes get closer, I'll post more details and air times. Until then, tune in to Degrassi each week and who knows what you might see.

[Duncan Macdonald]

Wow, thats pretty cool.

[Jonathan Norris]

Congrats 1114! As I've told you before this is a huge accomplishment. To my knowledge this will be the most publicity a single FIRST team has ever received. I look forward to seeing how your robots are incorporated into the episodes.

[Akash Rastogi]

Amazing what a simple high school robotics team can accomplish when they work hard for something.


Keep it up 1114 and don't ever stop doing what you do. This is a huge deal for FIRST. Congratulations.

[R.C.]

Congrats, way to work hard.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

I'll admit watching even the opening credits of that show made me cringe... tee....n.. dra...ma..TV....... NOoooooo errrrr....

But as you say, this is great publicity for FIRST. Great job!

[GaryVoshol]

I presume no robots were harmed in the filming of this project?

[BandChick]

I had such an addiction to Degrassi, and I was so ready to give it up this season (since all the original cast is now "college students"). But I think I will give it another shot just to see 1114!

Congratulations on such an awesome accomplishment!

How did you manage to get involved with this anyway?

[kevin.li.rit]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

Congrats 1114! As I've told you before this is a huge accomplishment. To my knowledge this will be the most publicity a single FIRST team has ever received. I look forward to seeing how your robots are incorporated into the episodes.

There was an hour long science channel documentary about 3 teams back in 2003(with 596 appearing in a brief shot).

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by Coffeeism

There was an hour long science channel documentary about 3 teams back in 2003(with 596 appearing in a brief shot).

I've seen that documentary its well done, but I doubt it reached the hundreds of thousand (probably millions) of young people that Degrassi does.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

I've seen that documentary its well done, but I doubt it reached the hundreds of thousand (probably millions) of young people that Degrassi does.

Yup, millions. According to their media guide, Degrassi regularly pulls in over a million viewers for each episode worldwide.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Yup, millions. According to their media guide, Degrassi regularly pulls in over a million viewers for each episode worldwide.

<joke>
Wow, shouldnt those millions be doing something more useful than watching tv?
</joke>

Congratulations 1114.

[Mr. Lim]

Just caught the episode on CTV @ 7:30pm. Good episode! Glad to see Degrassi is just as edgy as it was when I used to watch the original.

Joey Jeremiah, you're my hero!

[fredliu168]

You can watch the episode at

http://watch.ctv.ca/degrassitng/seas...th-two-hearts/

It's possible only Canadians can view it.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by fredliu168

You can watch the episode at

http://watch.ctv.ca/degrassitng/seas...th-two-hearts/

It's possible only Canadians can view it.

American's can find full episodes of Degrassi on The N's website at:

http://www.the-n.com/theclick/

I'm not sure if episode 805 is up yet, since I can't access anything inside "The Click" from Canada.