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Unread 04-04-2011, 20:52
Andrew Lawrence
 
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Re: A plead to FIRST, anyone else agree?

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Originally Posted by ahollenbach View Post
If you aren't having fun, you aren't doing it right.
We never said we are not having fun! Every FIRST competition is fun! What I have been saying (and others), is that it doesn't seem as fun for the audience! WE love FIRST, because we know all about it, and the great things it has done for us! Everyone else, our spectators, don't know this! They haven't felt the greatness of FIRST, the fun in the building season, and the experience gained from being on a FIRST team! THEY don't know that what we're doing now will be saving lives, and innovating the future! All they know is there are a bunch of nerds in one building playing with robots! They don't know anything else! But that's the vision of FIRST! We are here not only to learn and educate people, but to enlighten the world of this "New Cool" that we're doing. How can we expect them to understand what FIRST is doing, when they can't understand what WE are doing? For my team, Breakaway introduced the rest of our school to robotics. We showed off our robots before, but not until the robot-soccer like game of Breakaway did our school, and the community around us, realize what great things we are doing. If we incorporate robotics into popular, well-known activities in society, then everyone else will get interested!

This is just my $00.02 on this topic.
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