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Originally Posted by Adam Freeman
Actually, the ultimate goal of FIRST is to inspire students to pursue a STEM related higher education, so they can become competent and impassioned STEM professionals...thus bettering the entire world.
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It annoys me when people use a statement like this essentially as a counterargument to anyone saying that FIRST can do other great things. Why can't it be both?
This may be a controversial statement, but here goes: Given the massive amount of time, money, energy, etc. put into FIRST, if all it does is convince a few students to switch their college majors, it's not a very efficient program. There's so much more FIRST can and should be doing, and just pointing to the mission statement isn't a very good argument to begin with.