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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
Did anyone notice that non-STEM fields got slightly dissed during Kickoff? Dean mentioned that technology moves fast, other fields move slowly (e.g. Romeo and Juliet = West Side Story). Was it Jon Dudas who gave the example of someone who gave up acting for technology, and went from portraying someone important to being someone important?
I'm sure any slight was unintentional. But we have to watch our biases, which tends to come out in comments like this.
Yes, technical careers can lead to great advancements for humankind. But I'd much rather be part of a well-rounded world that includes actors, writers, musicians and artists. They make the rest of life interesting.
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I call the Animation contest the illegitimate child of FIRST. You never hear Dean give it any love and it doesn't help that every year they have a challenge that has absolutely nothing with what FRC is doing.
To be fair the Chairman's award doesn't have alot to do with the engineering challenge of FIRST as it has more to do with community building to get the community to embrace technology which often falls to the responsibility of the PR on the team (the engineers are kinda busy slapping together a competitive robot) and Dean reps the Chairman's award all the time.