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Originally Posted by Libby K
They do; it's called the Hall of Fame.
That said, I think the HoF, as well as the Allaire Medalists and our Dean's List winners need a lot more recognition from the FIRST side. Why bother having a HoF if you're going to stick them in a corner at the Championship? These guys need a BIG presence on every stage we can give them.
Hopefully that will continue to get better over the next few years.
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Then you're right, FIRST needs to make it much clearer that these teams are to be emulated. (As well as teams like 33, 469 and other non HoF teams) This constant bashing of highly successful teams (on the field and off it) sickens me and FIRST, frankly, FIRST needs to come out and be Frank (heh) and say that teams are free to use whatever resources they can find. Or, you know, whatever the heck they want to come out and say. Just stand by something and freaking yell it every kickoff and put it in the manual. We need to fix this "well, we TRIED but [XYZ Team] had those [expletive] engineers down at NASA build their robot for them" attitude.
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Originally Posted by Billfred
All of this, with one caveat: Districts, while potentially lacking the wow factor, do add one big thing for changing the culture: getting it spread into more parts of the culture. It is very hard to expose people locally to FIRST (especially at larger-than-SCRIW scale) when the Palmetto Regional is three hours away in Myrtle Beach.
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I never said those were coherent. Frankly, there's a lot of conflicting things that need to happen and navigating that is hard. But you are completely right.