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Re: This year's "game" is a job, not a game

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Originally Posted by jman4747 View Post
I know FIRST wants to draw more excitement and attention to Engineering/STEM but it's still engineering....

Point is if you can't handle this maybe slightly less exciting game you get your excitement from the wrong place. I'm excited about getting twice as good at Labview than I was in 2014 ago and that my team can finally use vision processing.
KelliV and Robochik1319 express a view more reflective of the target audience of FIRST. Dean invented this sport to attract students who otherwise would not look to STEM through excitement. Students like you would have just gone into some other STEM activity and pretty much ended up where you will be. You're an important part of FIRST because you can impart your knowledge to those students who weren't attracted until they saw something exciting, like our team captain from 2013 who switched from being a fashion designer to a mechanical engineer. This is about transforming how others seem STEM opportunities, not how they are today.
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