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FIRST's mission is to "transform our culture by creating a world where young people dream of becoming science and technology leaders". Right now, more young people then ever have that dream (with the glaring exception of young women). That certainly wasn't the case when I went through school , which is about the same time FIRST began. (Geek was still an insult in the early 90s).

So hypothesis: FIRST has achieved its mission (for boys, anyway). Thoughts?

Is there a danger with pushing the mission too far, as Fareed Zakaria suggests?