[Dominick Ferone]

Yesterday Dean Kamen gave a speech at the SUNYIT 2014 Commencement. afterwords he came and met with our FRC team and a couple local FLL, and FTC teams. Where he gave a speech( one of his best ones yet) and he also told us what he wished he said at Champs when giving out the homework. The homework is to build the alumni network and one incentive for doing it is you get a FIRST Alumni number. You might be asking well Dean what can my alumni number do for me. Well the alumni can be put on your resume and he has talked to some big companies who are also looking for engineers and students from STEM. The alumni number will show you were apart of FIRST which "gives students a boost ahead of everyone else in the real world" Dean's words not mine. Afterword he asked if we could help put the message out and let people to make sure they get all their team members to sign up. The details are still being finalized but he also said it may be like team numbers the earlier you sign up the lower a number you get or it may be your team number and your graduation year.
Anybody else think this is a cool idea? Also are you going to make sure your team signs up now.