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Joseph Fourier

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Hopper and Lovelace Divisions sound perfect. We need more representation for women in STEM, and I think that starts with giving the inspirational ladies that came before us the recognition they deserve. I also would love to see the Tesla Division be instated.

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I'd go with Abel and Galois, just for the mathematical humour of having an Abel Field (more aptly called the Abelian Field) and a Galois Field. Of course these fields would have to be "grouped" together.

Okay, I'm done.

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Nice

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Dean often says something along the lines of "Ask a kid to name a famous person from Hollywood or professional sports and they will rattle them off all day. Ask them to name a famous currently active scientist or engineer and they give you a blank stare".

With that, I'd love to see a yearly rotating division name. This division would be named after a new scientist every year. The names would be sampled from currently active scientists and engineers. It would be a great way to honor active scientists while also allowing the students to learn a bit more about current research topics.

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Maxwell!! Maxwell's equation are essential to physics and engineering!

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This is a fantastic idea. Even better would be if that same scientist or engineer would come to speak and be recognized.

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That would be really cool. You could even have that engineer/scientist of honor personally hand out the division championship banners/medals for their division.

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This would be an awesome way to connect students with academic role models.

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Not to nitpick, but for rings (and, by extension, fields) you use "commutative," not "Abelian" (in fact, fields are all assumed to be commutative; if not, they're called skew fields). ;)

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I love the idea of that - especially a scientist, since I think FIRST often gets a bit too much into engineering and misses out on the "S." It would be great if there were a life-scientist or something one year, as most of FIRST seems centered on physical sciences, and a lot of my team ended up in college for biology and the like.