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Re: Thoughts on Ri3D and BuildBlitz

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Originally Posted by Carl C View Post
Neither is business, marketing, outreach, and a plethora of other things that FIRST teams do, but would you say those things are less important things for a team to do than science and technology just because it isn't in the acronym?
"Inspiration" is a goal-- business, marketing, outreach are how we get there. They are different classes of activity. You inspire by doing outreach. I don't inspire so I can do outreach.

Solving a design challenge is part of inspiring, but it is by no means central. It shares the pedestal with outreach and business and the other "activities" of a FIRST team.
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