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Re: Robotics becomes official sport in Arizona!
It will certainly be interesting to learn the answers to cglrcng's questions. They involve exactly the sorts of bureaucratic rules that I was writing about in my earlier post.
I'll repeat this sentiment too: It appears that folks interacting with the the athletics organizations, and with the media, aren't graciously ensuring that FRC is clearly identified as the FIRST Robotics program, one of many robotics programs; instead of as "robotics". To me it seems a bit rude and misleading to implicitly dismiss all the other programs (both non-FIRST and FIRST).
I am curious whether anyone involved in these states is attempting to make this important distinction clear to the athletics organizations, or to the media?
This good news, "The AIA went on a trip to Minnesota to check out what they had there and were blown away! " makes me wonder how much *more* they were blown away when they found out what was going on at the Minnesota FRC State Championship was an example of only one of the successful, popular, growing, high-energy, worldwide, robotics programs. What did they say when they were told that?
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