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In the Section About Our Team About 1902 Our Communities Our Future About 4-H Exploding Bacon Robotics Club, Team 1902 Celebrating Our 11th Season FRC Students 31% female, 69% male 35 students from 11 schools plus homeschoolers In 5 counties: Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Lake & Volusia 50% of FRC students have previously been on an FLL team Mentors 8 dedicated college mentors: 7 of which are FIRST ALUMNI 71% Female Board Members Professional Mentors from - Walt Disney World, Comcast NBCUniversal, Lockheed Martin, and BAE Systems, wirecutter.com, and more… Mission Our mission is to inspire youth using 4-H principles along with the tenets of gracious professionalism to explore science and technology through a mentor based program, which develops leadership and life skills while encouraging innovation and creative solutions to engineering and technical challenges. 4-H Our 4-H relationship not only provides us with financial/liability support and non-profit status, but also allows us to accept students from any school district including homeschoolers without worry. This ties in with our original founding goal to create an active, successful team in which any student may join. Increase from last season Girls 17% to 31% Students from FLL 37% to 50% In the Section About Big Bacon Imagery & Branding Guidelines Big Bacon Theory of Image and Marketing From our beginning in 2006, when Exploding Bacon was founded with the intriguing name and iconic pig on the rocket logo, we have gained recognition throughout the FIRST community as well as our local community. Big Bacon Theory of Image and Marketing was developed to provide fellow FIRST Teams with helpful information to coordinate their marketing & imagery efforts and Chairman's materials. Each year a new group of students review the presentation, make new recommendations, and present the material. After winning three Regional Imagery Awards, Exploding Bacon assembled the presentation in 2011 from our lessons learned, providing a marketing workshop for the FIRST In this short time the team has given this World Championship in St. Louis that focuses presentation 15 times, 5 of those at FIRST on how to effectively market a FIRST team. World Championships. And, in 2013 Exploding Our presentation provides useful information Bacon 1902 was the recipient of the 2013 World about branding and is an integral part of our Championship Kamen Family Imagery Award. marketing strategy, encompassing our shirts, Our consistent efforts in our image online pit and robot, and even our online presence. placed us in the Top 4 teams for the World Our logo and vibrant colors identity us as Championship Digital Media Award in 2014 Exploding Bacon. We provide clearly defined and garnered us the attention of a new expectations of the use of our logo in addition sponsor NBC Comcast Universal. to branding elements that are used to guide our robot, video and graphic sub-groups. In October 2015, FIRST advised FRC Behind the Lines to contact us to present about marketing & branding for the FIRST community. Imagery for FIRST Teams Some helpful recommendations from Team 1902 Use your logo and colors in Imagery is not a logo or color. everything you do: It is everything you do as a team. It is the culture of your team. shirts | buttons | print | signage Website | social media | videos Whether your team is all about the Pink suits, furry hats, khaki's and polos or jeans and a baseball tee with a snazzy pair of Branding pig ears, your image and culture is yours Create a branding document to clarify and needs to be protected and nurtured. proper use of your logo, team name and Know Who You Are as a team and that additional elements. will be your image. Meet as a team and Some items of interest to address in your form a mission statement, create goals, branding guidelines include: identify what is important to your team, Your team fonts and establish guidelines of how your team presents itself. Elements of Strategic Your team colors in CMYK, PMS RGB Planning can be helpful in defining who and Hexidecimal you are and what you aim to be. Complimentary colors and fonts Grayscale regulations In FIRST, the primary marketing tool of your team is usually the team shirt. It Proper use on dark backgrounds identifies you and can be of value when Minimum sizing (should always be traded at competitions. Some teams also readable) have buttons, cheese wedge hats, bright Any acceptable variations of your logo blue pants, bee antennae, tiger ears or Spacing regulations around your logo other team related accessories. in relation to other content Also decide on your additional marketing Logo on promotional materials tools: business cards, pit design elements, Proper use of your clever tri-folds, flyers, marketing packets, tagline/motto inflatable aliens... things you might need How to incorporate you Team number to present yourself to the FIRST Examples of "Do Not's" for example community and to your local community. changing color, borders, distortions, additional elements to logo, distracting Visit the Resources section of explodingbacon.com for more info backgrounds, using wrong fonts, and stretching size beyond acceptable resolution. 4-H EXPLODING BACON ROBOTICS CLUB | TEAM 1902 Identify Your Colors About 1902 Visit/ask your shirt or printing company Since our beginning in 2006, when for the specific Pantone colors your team Exploding Bacon was founded with the uses. You can then use those Pantone unique name, iconic logo, and bright colors with an online converter to find the orange and green colors chosen... our pig equivalent RGB for use online and in on the rocket and consistent branding has Microsoft programs, CMYK for use in gained us recognition throughout the graphics programs for print, and FIRST community and local communities. Hexidecimal values for web use. Exploding Bacon 1902 won 3 Regional Logo Files Imagery Awards, the 2013 World Provide your team members with multiple Championship Kamen Family Imagery types of easy to access logo files. Award and placed in the top 4 for the World Championship Digital Media Award - jpgs, pngs, gifs and vector files in 2014. - pngs and gifs can be created as transparent images for use on multiple Our Big Bacon Theory of Image and color backgrounds. Marketing has been presented 15 times, - vector graphics can be increased to any 5 of those at FIRST World Championships. size as needed Our presentation was developed to - jpgs, gifs, pngs are raster graphics, provide helpful information to coordinate meaning there are limits to size use. their marketing, imagery efforts Chairman's materials. Our students present the material and regularly review Maintain control of your image by recommendations to keep it current and being clear about the proper use helpful to FIRST Teams. of logo, colors, team name and tagline elements. Oink Oink, Boom! FIRST Branding Guidelines You should be familiar with the FIRST Branding Guidelines to make sure you use the FIRST logo properly as well. www.firstinspires.org/brand FIRST Branding can also be a helpful guideline to creating your own guidelines. 4-H EXPLODING BACON ROBOTICS CLUB | TEAM 1902 In the Section Battering Ham FRC Awards Media Digital Media Submission Top Four Finalist, Comcast Business Cards 2015 Universal Articles HR Magazine Article 2014 2013 & 14 Robot Magazine 1902 FRC Awards 2015: Recycle Rush 2010: Breakaway . Chairman's Award, Inaugural Georgia . Chairman’s Award, Florida Regional Southern Classic Regional . Imagery Award, Florida Regional . Imagery Award, Orlando Regional . Winner, North Carolina Regional . Industrial Design Award sponsored by 2014: Aerial Assist General Motors, North Carolina Regional . Engineering Inspiration Award, South Florida Regional 2009: Lunacy . Animation Award, Florida Regional 2013: Ultimate Ascent . Gracious Professionalism Award . Creativity Award, Orlando Regional sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, Florida . Winner, South Florida Regional Regional . Chairman’s Award, South Florida Regional . Autodesk Visualization Award, Florida . Kris Walters (2012-13 Co-President), Regional Dean’s List, South Florida Regional . Winner, Connecticut Regional . Kamen Family Imagery Award, World Championships 2008: Overdrive . Entrepreneurship Award, Florida Regional 2012: Rebound Rumble . Motorola Quality Award, Bayou Regional . Imagery Award, Orlando Regional . Engineering Inspiration Award, Inaugural 2007: Rack ‘n Roll South Florida Regional . Imagery Award, Florida Regional . Katie Austin (2011-12 Co-President), . Finalist, Florida Regional Dean’s List, Inaugural South Florida . Industrial Design Award sponsored by Regional General Motors, Nevada Regional . Winner – Galileo, World Championships 2011: Logomotion . Finalist, Florida Regional 2006: Aim High . Governor’s Award, Florida Regional . Rookie All-Star Award, Florida Regional . Animation Award, Florida Regional . Highest Rookie Seed, Florida Regional . Marissa Walters (2010-11 Co-President), . Finalist, Florida Regional Dean’s List, Florida Regional . Rookie Inspiration Award, Texas Regional . Gracious Professionalism Award . Highest Rookie Seed, Texas Regional sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, . Finalist – Archimedes, World Palmetto Regional Championships 34 FIRST Robotics Competition Awards. Bacon in the News Experiencing Florida’s First STEM Day 03/05/2014 (Excerpt from article http://www.teamorlando.org/experiencing-floridas-first-stem-day/) By Benn Aaronson, Team Orlando STEM Advocate On March 5, I saw the Florida State Capitol rotunda award. With these
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