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Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard
Also might be awkward having people read "The New Cool", and then telling them the team in the book no longer exists.
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I'll tell them the school built its FIRST team into a role model for technical and competitive excellence. Twenty design awards and ten blue banners in ten seasons (sorry if I missed some) don't tell their whole story, which is really about building an engineering academy, from the foundation up.
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Originally Posted by LeelandS
As tragic as this is for the FIRST Community,...
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I don't see a tragedy. Maybe some tears are justified, like those shed at commencement, not at a funeral. I've known quite a few individual FIRST alumni who now do really cool things in science and technology through other means. DPEA is now a distinguished corporate alumnus of FIRST.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)