This document summarizes the marketing, media, and awards activities of a FIRST robotics team. It describes submitting awards like the Chairman's Award and Woodie Flowers Award. It also outlines creating a business plan, website content, graphics, videos, and promotional materials to showcase the team's accomplishments and inspire others. Contributions are encouraged from all team members to record the team's experiences and spread the message of FIRST.

1. Marketing, Media & Awards
• Awards Submissions & Presentations
• Website
• Marketing, Graphics & Promotions
• Multimedia

2. Awards & Presentations

3. Chairman’s
• FIRST’s most prestigious award
• Goal
– Clearly articulate why Team 357
is a model for other teams to
emulate and bests embody the
purpose and goals of FIRST
• What is involved:
– Written award submission
– Video

4. Woodie Flowers
• Goals
– Clearly articulate why
one of our mentors
demonstrates excellence
in teaching science,
math, and creative
design
– Explain how this mentor
leads, inspires, and
empowers others

5. Entrepreneurship (Business Plan)
• Goals
– Develop a comprehensive
business plan that
defines, manages, and
achieves team objectives
– Clearly articulate
entrepreneurial enthusiasm
and the vital business skills
to ensure a self-sustaining
program

6. Other Notable Regional Awards
Competition Robot Team Other
• Regional Winner • Engineering • Gracious • Industrial Safety
• Regional Finalist Excellence Professionalism™ • FIRST Dean’s List
• Coopertition™ • Excellence in • Team Spirit Finalist
Design • Imagery Award
• Judges’ Award
• Creativity
• Innovation in
Control
• Industrial Design
• Quality
• Engineering
Inspiration

7. 2008 Regional Winner
Excellence in
Design
2011 Engineering Inspiration

9. Website

10. How to Get Involved &
What You Will Learn
• Writing content & articles
• Interactive media
• Web design
• Basic HTML coding

11. Marketing & Promotions

12. What We Do
• Collateral (i.e. Brochure)
• Judges’ material
• Graphics
(Using In-Design & Illustrator)
• Kiosk
• Promotional materials
– Buttons
– Game-related giveaways
(i.e. trading cards)
• Branding (i.e. T-shirts)
• Book of Jester

13. Multimedia

14. What You Will Learn
• Use of still & video cameras
• Video editing (Final Cut Pro)
• Photo editing (Photoshop)
Outputs include: Pit video, Chairman’s video,
Banquet slideshow/video, various presentation videos

15. Why Are These Important?
• “Not just about robots”
• Learn about & be able to represent the team
• Record of team accomplishments
• Documentation
• Skills acquired are applicable in school & beyond
• Outputs have various uses
– **Team promotion**
– Marketing to potential sponsors
– Inspire & spread the message of FIRST

16. Your Role
• EVERYONE SHOULD CONTRIBUTE
• Share what you’re doing with the sub-team
• Take initiative!
• Be creative!
You don’t have to be an expert.
We will teach you.