[nicholsjj]

Paper air planes have become part of the FIRST culture at Championships. It is understandable that students sitting in the stands the entire day will extra time and paper will engineer paper air planes. The feat of having an air plane scale the pyrmaid during Einstein was rather impressive. Now on to the only problem I have with them, after the event.
I was able to stay in the stands after the finals were over and talk to some other volunteer friends for around 10 min. When I finally stood up to leave there were two glaring things that I noticed in all of the empty isles, air planes and trash. This had to hurt the entire image of First in the eyes of all the event staff working at the Edward Jones Dome beacue we as a community left it a mess.
I want to challenge all of the students/mentors/parents on teams to make sure we keep First clean at the Dome next year. I am sure that some did teams did a fantastic job but there is some major room for improvement.
For students, I have one extra challenge for anyone that makes a paper air plane. If you make one take one out of the dome with you. If we all do this we can help the staff clean up our mess and make the image of First even greater.