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Re: A Request

At a recent gathering of mentors in Indiana [mostly FRC but with other programs represented as well], a recurring theme became apparent. For whatever reason, only FRC seems to have an explicit and highly-celebrated goal of doing outreach and "making it loud" beyond the competition community. All of the competition robotics programs do a fine job of inspiring the participants. FLL in particular rewards finding solutions in realms outside the robot competition. VEX has great support for classroom activity, with FTC getting there as well. But I think FRC as a whole tends to have the biggest and most effective effort in getting the "R" in FIRST out in the wider world where it needs to be in order to achieve the goal of "changing the culture".

Discussions I was part of mostly focused on needing to get the FLL "feeling" to continue through the other programs. Maybe we should also work on getting some of the existing FRC culture to propagate back the other way.
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