2011 Championship Matches from Einstein on iTunesU

In my insomnia the other night I stumbled across some video footage in an iTunesU presentation. I’m not sure anyone posted this before. This appears to befrom something called the Higher Education Channel and they seem to have broadcast the Championship in the St. Louis area.

The video footage includes all 6 Einstein matches played this year with Dave Verbrugge’s wonderful albeit shorter than usual intros of the teams. There are also some high angle shots of the field getting set up each match and the rush to fix the robots during the finals. This is intercut with some interviews with local teams and visiting these teams during build. Overall its a pretty good package showing the championship.

Just search First Robotics on iTunesU and it should be the first hit.

HEC-TV has also started a series called Innovations is MindSport.

What they did was give flip cameras to second local St. Louis teams, and then put the footage together to show the challenges and problem solving involved in FIRST. Their first episode (and future ones) can be seen online at http://www.hectv.org/programs/series/innovations-is-mindsport/