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So you want to recruit new sponsors for your team? Just build them a robot! 
Here's the Mountain Dewbot, which was designed and built by father and myself at our house for the Mountain Dew Vertical Challenge, a ski/snowboard race sponsored by its namesake company. Here were are pictured with the robot, along with the rest of the "Dew Crew", who were so impressed by our work, that they are sending pictures of this "all the way down to corporate"!
I certainly had fun building (and playing with) my latest toy!
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02-04-2007 16:20
Kyle
Re: pic: Art and the Mountain Dewbot!
That looks great, I hope it works out for you guys and get a sponsor ship. What are some of the specs on how it works and what it dose?
02-04-2007 16:28
Lil' Lavery
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Originally Posted by Kyle
That looks great, I hope it works out for you guys and get a sponsor ship. What are some of the specs on how it works and what it dose?
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02-04-2007 16:31
Rich Ross
Re: pic: Art and the Mountain Dewbot!
those treads look like they could play some mean D in a FIRST competition.
02-04-2007 16:39
Taylor
Re: pic: Art and the Mountain Dewbot!
That pic just wouldn't be complete without the bunny-ears.
02-04-2007 17:18
ChrisMcK2186
Re: pic: Art and the Mountain Dewbot!
Wait, didn't MD do this a while ago in their commercials? The one bot that went around and almost killed a guy by pegging him repeatedly in the groin with high pressure launched cans? Cool bot nonetheless.
Chris
02-04-2007 17:21
Billfred
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Originally Posted by ChrisMcK2186
Wait, didn't MD do this a while ago in their commercials? The one bot that went around and almost killed a guy by pegging him repeatedly in the groin with high pressure launched cans?
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02-04-2007 18:34
artdutra04
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Originally Posted by Kyle
That looks great, I hope it works out for you guys and get a sponsor ship. What are some of the specs on how it works and what it dose?
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Originally Posted by Rich Ross
those treads look like they could play some mean D in a FIRST competition.
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02-04-2007 19:46
Mark Pierce
Re: pic: Art and the Mountain Dewbot!
Looks Great. I like the innovative and extreme effort you put into this fundraising effort.
If you get the sponsorship though, please try to avoid logo confusion with the team who's logo was inspired by a Mountain Dew Box: the RoboDAWGS of Grandville and Byron Center, Michigan. There have been a few discussions over the years about whether they should ask for sponsorship from the Pepsi people, but nothing ever came from it.
02-04-2007 20:09
1086VEX
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I WANT ONE!!!!!
it looks really good, great job!!!
02-04-2007 20:49
spinmunky
Re: pic: Art and the Mountain Dewbot!
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Originally Posted by ChrisMcK2186
Wait, didn't MD do this a while ago in their commercials? The one bot that went around and almost killed a guy by pegging him repeatedly in the groin with high pressure launched cans? Cool bot nonetheless.
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02-04-2007 22:09
artdutra04
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Originally Posted by Mark Pierce
Looks Great. I like the innovative and extreme effort you put into this fundraising effort.
If you get the sponsorship though, please try to avoid logo confusion with the team who's logo was inspired by a Mountain Dew Box: the RoboDAWGS of Grandville and Byron Center, Michigan. There have been a few discussions over the years about whether they should ask for sponsorship from the Pepsi people, but nothing ever came from it. |
We already have several members of the Dew Crew interested in attending several of the offseason FRC competitions in New England, just because of the Dewbot. Before the event, we emailed several of the Dew Crew members who we are good friends with telling them that we would be bring up "a robot" to the MDVC Finals. Those emails were forwarded a lot around Pepsi Marketing apparently, as there was an executive from PepsiCo that flew out from Colorado just to see our robot, of which he was extremely impressed.
Also, I don't think there would be any logo confusion if we did get the sponsorship, as the Dewbot is a public relations robot and not our FRC robot. We'll still keep our team name of Gus.
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