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Originally Posted by Ginger Power
More than anything, this situation has made me think extensively about FIRST's mission of changing the culture through its robotics programs, starting with one community at a time. I feel as though I now understand and support the reasoning behind this mission statement on a more personal level. Have any other teams experienced something similar to this situation? How do other communities react to FRC programs?
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You're exactly right that this is the mission of FIRST, to change the culture on how Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics are viewed. This is also what the chairmans award is all about, a culture change.
You can take a look at some of the Hall of Fame teams in first to see how they approached this opportunity (I like opportunities instead of problems), or even here on CD. There are quite a few white papers on here of team's chairmans award, you can take a look at them to see how they handled it.