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Originally Posted by F22Rapture
But that's a shame on the part of your school. Those attitudes are the sort that FIRST was designed to change in the first place, and I do hope that your team can turn it around a bit.
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We reach out to our community as much as we possibly can to our students. We have a display case with info on our team. We participate in our pep assemblies. Unfortunately, sometimes people just have no interest in engineering. I'm a sophomore, and speak for my class. Some interest probably comes with maturity. I am pretty sure that older, more mature students appreciate the doings of FIRST more than younger people who still believe in cliques (which bug me), or think they are better than everyone else.
I don't think that "popular" people realise this; the phones that they are addicted to? Who designed them? The "nerds". The stereotypical SUV they have? Who designed that? The "nerds".
Everybody
loves the football and basketball players, and the cheerleaders and poms team. Why don't people love the robotics team members? What with all the mechanisms and robots we design? You don't know how many people I've told about CADD that don't have a clue what it is. I show them, and give a quick demo on how to make a simple thing (like a box, maybe with a couple holes). They think it is the most complicated thing ever. "You know how to use that? You have way to much time on your hands." I'm sorry, and what do you do in your spare time? "Chill". Chill? What is "chilling"? "Sitting around." Sitting on the couch watching a stupid reality TV show and not doing anything that benifits your brain is better than engaging your brain, trying to solve a problem and make saucers fly and robots climb?
I apologise for my rant, Chief Delphi Community. I'm hoping someone can answer my questions. I just don't understand.