04-07-2015, 00:10
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6th Gear Developer; Mentor
AKA: Blake Ross
no team (6th Gear)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: May 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,934
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Re: Team 1717 retires
Quote:
Originally Posted by sanddrag
And this is why FIRST as a national organization needs to integrate themselves with education rather than separate themselves from it.
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Or, on the other hand, it might be why less expensive (and I'm not necessarily talking about cash) STEM programs need to diffuse through communities independently of the schools.
I don't know that schools can pull the rest of the world the way a locomotive pulls a train; but I am confident that a community can support a school, and can make STEM programs into community programs that don't depend so strongly on any single handful of participants.
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