What jokes do you make at Outreach Events?

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What are jokes you tend to use for Outreach Events? I’m looking for more of puns and dad jokes that don’t take a while to set up.

Here are some of my Robot Jokes:

Q: What’s a robot’s favorite kind of music?
A: Heavy Medal

Q: After competitions, why did our robot get tired?
A: It had a hard drive

Q: Why did the robot get mad?
A: Because people kept pushing its buttons

Q: Why did the robot cross the road?
A: Because it was programmed to be a chicken

It’s helpful to use the same drive base every year so we don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

Those are some of my jokes I tell, but they don’t just have to be robot jokes as long as they can be told at outreach events.

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I’m in my drivers ed car laughing uncontrollably thank you so much I don’t know why this is so enjoyable to be but I appreciate it.

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In FRC, students have just six weeks to design, build, and program robots.

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At the end of the season, FIRST crowns a World Champion.

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Teams build their entire robot with no more then $5,000.

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I’m looking for jokes, not as much about FIRST.

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Those last three were jokes. They’re “funny because they’re not true.”

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Would the audience laugh at them during an outreach event?

I doubt it.

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You’ll get cries instead of laughs. :sob:

That’s like saying “and none of the $5000 entry fee actually goes to run the event”.
“your’e joking, right?”
“Nooope”

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To be a bit less snarky, when I prep kids to do presentations I tell them that humor is like a high wire act. Impressive if you can pull it off…but misjudge things a bit and you’ll have a spectacular fail. Know your audience, your material and your own limitations before trying to be funny.

T

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During the first 15 seconds of the match, robots are autonomous.

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Are you BattleBots?

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I feel like maybe you guys are missing the point here

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If the robot fails to work for some reason, walk up to it sadly, stare for a moment, and then announce: “Rust in Peace”. (or “rust in pieces”, your choice)

If the robot suddenly starts working, any wisecrack about robots being afraid of humans works.

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Not much of a joke but telling little kids that the bot is shy and will not perform until everyone claps always gets the kids hyped (also give us another minute to try and make the robot functional :confused:)

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oh boy surprised to not see the hoards of people shift from the thread on Baby Shark into this thread screaming… “Dad jokes are ruining FIRST!!!”

Anti Joke:
Q: What happens when you tell a robot to rollover?
A: It does it… because its a robot, and I programmed it

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The robot always works except when it doesn’t :smile:

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Never said it but thought of wanting to say it. Only works if they know what military recruiters are. Theres the “Don’t trust military recruiters because they get paid off of you” so…

“We’re the type of recruiters that you can trust”

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I guess it is not so much a joke as something said for effect. I point to the robot, describe the process of game analysis, CAD design, build, programming, testing, breaking and fixing, revising…and say that the team did it in six weeks.*

And then point out that for those in the room with HS or near HS aged children, that’s about how long it takes them to clean their rooms. Oh, and we also built a near clone practice robot at the same time.

*This is clearly a Bag era line but it works well for adults and employers. What current HS individuals regard as humor is an enigma to me.

T

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