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Originally Posted by rsisk
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Listening to this is well worth the time.
My personal favorite is between 41:00 and 42:30, when Jim goes into high-passion mode on how to really achieve the culture-changing mission of FIRST -- through what he terms "conquest sales"; i.e., getting high-potential students who might have done any of several other activities requiring significant commitment to forgo those, and be part of the FRC team instead. I completely agree with Jim -- this is what really success in the FRC mission will look like. The FRC will be a sport, and not just any sport, but THE sport that society respects and models itself after. I did not believe that before coming to Michigan several years ago, but I do now, because I have seen it beginning to work.
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Originally Posted by IKE
Michigan may have set the model, but MAR showed how it can be applied to a broader group in the US. I really hope that PNW can show how this can work for the world...
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Amen.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)