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Re: Can someone in the Irving TX area "draft" this young man?
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Originally Posted by Monochron View Post
I bet a FIRST team full of foreign kids building amazing things and getting exciting about engineering would help the situation. Helping people relate to those they are prejudiced against is a good step.
I've seen several teams that were completely non-white-male, including an all-girls' team from Hawaii at the Wisconsin Regional one year and several teams from the Israel Regional and the Mexico City Regional in St. Louis. I'm so glad I got to go that year (although watching Will.I.Am try to freestyle was atrocious).
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