[EricH]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

Let me rephrase:

Why can't we BE the FIRST story and TELL it at the same time?

Because we don't have ENOUGH FIRST stories available to do the telling!

Let me explain this one: Each student (and in some cases, the mentors) is a FIRST story, and has one. The problem is that many of them are distinctly unavailable during the summer, or during meetings of another activity, or at some other time that is convenient for telling the story, for a variety of reasons not necessarily relating to lack of interest. A larger team has more members that might be available, but large/huge teams tend to be the exception rather than the rule, particularly if all their students are fully active!

In other words, there is a severe lack of available manpower to do the telling and do what is needed to build a robot* at the same time. Time to get some more inspiration going!

*This "what is needed" includes fundraising, outreach demonstrations, keeping up with schoolwork, robot building/maintenance, moving shops if needed, planning logistics, and all the other stuff that goes into showing up at competition with a robot.