YES! I believe that FIRST needs to have a bigger emphasis on entrepreneurship. STEM shouldn't be just about getting a better job, we should inspire our incredible students to start companies and create NEW jobs.
610 has had a great history of helping to develop great entrepreneaurs, the founder of
Kik (Canada's largest consumer tech startup), one of the founders of
BufferBox (YC, acquired by Google), and all 4 co-founders of my startup
Taplytics (YC) are all 610 alumni. And I know there are many other FIRST alumni who have started great companies and are very senior employees at great companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple. I've been saying for years that the experience of building a FRC robot directly relates to building a startup. We need to do a better job of inspiring our students to start great new companies.
Edit: Almost forgot, a talented group of current 610 students are well on their way to adding to that list with
Nimja, here is their
thank you video.