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Martin Professional lighting fixtures at FIRST Championship events and concert

Martin Professional lighting fixtures at FIRST Championship events and concert
Martin Professional lighting fixtures at FIRST Championship events and concert

The 2015 FIRST Championship pitted 900 international youth teams against each other in a weekend-long event at the end of April. Using robots they had designed, built and programmed themselves, each team competed in a series of qualifying rounds focused on this year’s theme ‘Recycle Rush’.

 

Staged across five venues, the championship’s main events were held at the Edward Jones Dome, home of the St. Louis Rams. New Orleans-based entertainment design and production firm, Solomon Group, was asked to light the ceremonies and competitions plus the concert that capped off the weekend with the help of Harman Martin Professional’s lighting fixtures.

 

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) hosts several events throughout the year that target elementary and high school students. The annual championship is the culmination of dozens of regional qualifying rounds throughout the world. Solomon Group also produced eight regional events in addition to the championship, which Matt Foucheaux, Solomon Group’s Director of Production Design, describes as much more dramatic than the relatively straightforward regional productions.

 

“We mainly relied on simple PAR cans at the regionals, but our client wanted more pageantry at the championship, which introduced a new, Olympic-style event model,” said Foucheaux. “Martin’s MAC Quantum Wash was our workhorse for the entire weekend. We put it on double-duty for lighting the competitions as well as the concert performers onstage.”

 

“Once the competitions were finished, all we needed to do was flip the MAC Quantum Washes around toward the stage for the closing ceremony to soak the entire stadium in color and movement,” said Foucheaux. “If we had used PAR rigs, we would’ve had to climb up and refocus everything manually.”

 

The MAC Quantum Washes, which were hung about 40 feet above the ground floor, were complemented by a host of other Martin fixtures including the MAC Viper Profile, MAC Viper AirFX, MAC Aura, MAC III Performance and the Rush MH 3 Beam.

 

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