I’m doing a TEDxBrainport pitch on the 4th of June. My 7min pitch is about to how to make STEM more interresting for kids. And I give my vision on how we should change our current situation within the Netherlands. With an example as FIRST / FRC.
And I’m looking for 1 photo more… it needs to be PERFECT!.
What I need?:
1 Photo
FRC Student who explains something to younger kids… who are looking at the robot, with for example: their mouth open…:yikes:, who are really inspired by it!
I have one that I really like that fits the goal of an FRC student explaining an FRC robot to younger students.
This photo also has the advantage of not highlighting a specific team #. The FRC student doing the explaining isn’t even wearing a team shirt, but an event volunteer shirt.
I was planning to attach it to this thread, but attachments are turned off in this “Robot Showcase” area of CD.
I’m instead linking to the photo on the 1519 facebook group. Hopefully you’ll be able to view the photo there.
The photo I uploaded is low res. If you want this photo at a higher resolution, PM me and I can provide resolutions up to 3000x2000.
The FRC robot is actually flipped upside down to show the drive train, and getting to see what is underneath has all the kids enthralled!
I wish I had a better angle on this one, because I think it would show what you are looking for:
Some FLL ones
A few of my recent FRC ones with little kids…
Not a FIRST robot, but at a FIRST competition:
I spend a lot of time trying to capture emotion at events, so feel free to take a look through my albums to see if there is anything that might fit your presentation.
And good luck!! Looking forward to see how your final talk comes out!
These kids were interacting with our 2012 bot which was being controlled from a long distance away, so they didn’t really know what was going on… it was at a Halloween themed fundraiser for a foundation that had given us a grant so we were showing the public what where previous donations had ended up…
its not a photo, its a video but its awesome… its the announcement of the score of the 3rd final match at the Israeli regional. The blue alliance (4320,2630,1577) after being down 1-0 won Finals 2 & 3 and won Israel.
This is my most inspiring FIRST picture. What you don’t see in this picture is a wheelchair. This young lady just 6 weeks prior to this picture was 100% paralyzed and couldn’t even breathe on her own. She was in the hospital for 42 days and had to relearn everything (Walk, talk, etc).
This picture was the very same day she was released from the rehabilitation hospital. After a half hour at home, she said “Mom, take me to the shop”. She just wanted to build her robot.
When the Drs. told her she would not walk for maybe a year, her response was “I have a robot to drive in 4 months”…and she did just that. Now THAT’s inspiring.
(and thanks to orlnado regional for take this pics!)
