View Single Post
  #240   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 23-08-2011, 03:26
Lavapicker's Avatar
Lavapicker Lavapicker is offline
Registered User
FRC #1056 (Hot Rocks)
Team Role: Mentor
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Rookie Year: 2003
Location: Hilo, HI
Posts: 101
Lavapicker is just really niceLavapicker is just really niceLavapicker is just really niceLavapicker is just really nice
Re: "i.am.FIRST -- Science is Rock and Roll" airs August 14th

I see the good this show and all the work Will.i.am has done for FIRST this year and I know you can't show everything in a TV show like this but I was Very disappointed not to see any mention of 359. I thought for sure we'd see a shot of them on stage getting the award with a short bio of why they got it. Chairmans is the highest award in FIRST since its not about how well we do year to year in competition but how our programs impact our students, community and the world which we all know is more important in the long run than who got first place. That should be the message we get out there to people looking in, even on a "short" recruitment show like this. I think someone dropped the ball on it. They showed bio's from other teams and the impact FIRST had on their students but not the Championship Chairmans winner which is the definition of impact? What happened? Glenn and the gang at McKinley's 368 led the way in Hawaii where I believe we now have the highest percentage of schools with robotics programs in the whole United States. I believe every single team in Hawaii was helped at some point by Glenn. Perhaps if we were a bigger State it would have made the show? Glenn, his team and their story would have been an inspiration to a lot of people out there. I don't want to talk bad about his school (sorry Glenn but people need to know) but His very small school is in a very poor, rural and remote part of the Island and yet he has built a powerhouse program in a place where there was very little going on before him. Again, He accomplished what this show was hoping to accomplish.
__________________
2003 - Pacific Northwest Regional-Seattle :Quarterfinalist
2004 - Pacific Northwest Regional -Oregon
2007 - Silicon Valley Regional
2007 - Atlanta:Galileo Field (5-2)
2008 - SVR finalist*, Engineering Inspiration Award
2008 - Hawaii semi-finalist, Team Spirit Award
2008 - Atlanta:Archimedes (3-3-1)
2010 - Hawaii regional quarterfinalist
2011 - Hawaii regional finalist, Engineering Inspiration, Innovation in control
2011- St. Louis Galileo Field (7-3) 14th seed, quarterfinalist

2012 - Hawaii Regional Semi-finalist, creativity, industrial design awards
Reply With Quote