Our regional events in the 2016 year have come and gone, and we have ended with not one, but TWO Engineering Inspiration award wins and we could not be more proud. The Engineering Inspiration award celebrates a team that is able to inspire others, not only in the FIRST community, to love STEM and robotics through our outreach as well as our robots. To show how we do this on 2485, we want to release our Chairman’s award video submission. This video celebrates what we have accomplished and what we stand for, which is to be “Champions of Legacy” in everything that we do.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to reach out to us. See you all at the Championships!
Truly impressive. You guys have an amazing team and it keeps getting better. Congrats on the double EI; the WARLords are among the most dedicated students and mentors in FIRST and your accomplishments demonstrate that. We’ve missed you at regionals for a couple years, but look forward to seeing you at champs!
It’s not entirely unheard of. I know 2500, Herobotics pulled it off last year.
That’s not to detract from what an incredible accomplishment it is though-- a serious congratulations are in order, both for a great season thus far and for that fantastic video.
This is great - truly came together wonderfully. I have to run somewhere soon so I won’t be able to comment on it as much as I would like, but it’s a really impressive video. Photogenic and enthusiastic speaker as well, not much you can ask for there!
If anything, I’d look into adding a brief description and citing where you got your music. Aside from that, not much I can think of feedback-wise. Was this student-directed/edited?
The music is called “Inspiring Trailer” and it is by PR_MusicProductions, and we obtained it via AudioJungle/Envato Marketplace.
As for the process for the creation of the video, it was a joint effort between the mentors involved and the students involved. Last summer, a group of students got together to try to come up with a coherent theme to base all of our Chairman’s efforts on, and we came up with the concept of using numbers in an artistic way to describe what our team means to much and what we have done, a concept that then was used in the video, the essay and the presentation alike.
The data was then gathered by students that had very detailed experience with the team, and edited by mentors and students alike to try to be as accurate as possible. Once we had agreed about the data list, the first draft was written by a student, myself to be exact. After that the draft was re-edited and re-written about 4-5 times by students and mentors alike, and then it was cast. Then we went into shot planning. We have a mentor on 2485 that has a vast amount of experience in the video-making industry, and she outlined for us the process that creating this video entailed, from shot planning, to filming, to recording and then post-production. We assigned students to every step of the process and she would help us fine-tune things and make sure that we were doing everything correctly as we were going. Filming was all done by the second week of build season, and then post-production and editing was done by about Week 5.
The video would not have been made the way it was without every single person that was involved, from students writing the script to shot planning to filming to mentors and post-production- a direct example of how 2485 strives to have students and mentors working hand in hand to produce something that we are all proud of.
