Personally, I have wracked my brain to think of great ‘giveaways’ for the St. Louis Regional this thursday, March 6th. I know a ton of rookie teams will be there (my team included) and I wanted to make a positive, fun impact on all the teams that are new to FIRST. A lot of rookies have really fun names, and I wondered how they were going to, how do you say it, advertise.
I know that Team #1020 will have specially made, limited edition Monkey Armbands, some mini CD’s, and a couple of fun things to give away to all of the teams at St. Louis. What about your team?
As far as I know we’ll be giving out buttons. That’s about it. Even though it’s the teams 9th year, a small budget dosn’t allow for much else in the area of advertisements.
Uh-uh. If you (or anyone not at the St. Louis regional, for that matter) want to get your hands on an official Prank Monkeys CD-R, you have to either a) come to the Team 1020 pit, introduce yourself, and ask nicely , or b) visit the team’s website (http://www.team1020.org) and leave us a message.
Our team will be “distributing” bandanas Via my launcher. I’m also including a sucker in each launch so their will be even more incentive to catch them.
while our team is not going to St. Louis, we are going to Hartford and Long Island, and I know we will be handing out customized dog tags, they’re pretty nifty looking
Yeah, we’re a rookie team as well, so we just have buttons. One team, however, gave out shop towels and a trash bag with their name and logo on it, another gave out a “pit kit” which had candy (!!!) and some other stuff in it. Of course the only important thing was candy, so I can’t remember the other things. Most teams there had buttons, which seem to be the cheapest and easiest to get.
The River City Robots
“Fixing What Isn’t Broken”
Team #1094
St. Charles County, MO
Those swords were awesome! Cando Cub Robotics (Team #877) handed out the spaghetti on Saturday morning. It had a label that said good luck on it, and it must’ve somehow worked for them, because they made it to the finals! I love the Prank Monkey’s pins. BTW, how’d you guys come up with a name like that??? Oh, and kudos for doin the chicken dance; the regional wasn’t complete without it… =)
We couldn’t afford to be doing much…we handed out some stickers that were our equivalent of buttons (we didn’t think of making them into buttons for this, maybe Nationals though…) Unfortunately, they won’t let us use the launcher in the games because of “liability issues.” But if you went to that grillout thing, you got to see it there. We might try to come up with some money for something else also, but we are barely able to afford a second trip…
Wow that was a whole lot longer than I meant it to be…sorry. :rolleyes:
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