For those of you who don't know what FIRST Robotics is, it is an international non-profit organization designed to stimulate and involve today's youth (k-12) in STEM (science, technology, engineering & math) fields through competition. FIRST stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology." Each year, teams from across the world cosntruct and program robots to compete in regional competitions as well as the international competition in Atlanta.

Winning the regionals and international competitions, however, is only the silver medal metaphorically speaking. The real prize is to win the Chairman's Award. Each year, teams are awarded the Chairman's Award based on their community outreach programs and how well the spread ideals of FIRST like gracious professionalism & STEM recognition.

My robotics team is Team 1086 Blue Cheese from Deep Run High School in Glen Allen, VA. For our main Chairman's project this year, we are playing off the idea of Flat Stanely. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Flat Stanely, it is designed to promote literacy awareness. What happens is people send out cutouts of the children's book character "flat stanely" to other people, who take pictures with the cutout and send the pictures back to the source. My team is playing off this idea using the founders of FIRST Dean Kamen (known as Flat Dean) and Dr. Woodie Flowers (Woodie World Wide).

Attached are the JPEG files of Flat Dean & Woodie World Wide. If anyone is willing, would you please take pictures with or of the printouts around town, then send them to my team's email bluecheese1086@yahoo.com with RE: Chairman's Project- Michael L., post them on this thread for me to download or PM me with your pictures. Please include the city and state, and country if you are not from the US, when you reply. Thank you in advance to everyone who participates! It is greatly appreciated.

Here is the link to my team's page describing the program as well as the link to the album of photos people have already sent us:

http://www.1086bluecheese.org/index.php?page=global

http://www.1086bluecheese.org/index.php?ma...15&page=115

How many pictures? Just one or what? I might, sounds kinda fun

Yours,
Shane~

However many you'd like to take with whichever one you'd like to take them with. Though having at least one for both would be greatly beneficial for us. Thanks again for your help!