One word: Entertainment. People pay more attention to entertainment than anything else. The best ways of educating are through games and entertainment. Look at that Muzzy guy, teaching kids languages or the Animaniacs with thier songs about countries and verbs and stuff. Or that Phonics game. That gets into people's heads.
The question is, how do you entertain with the ideals and ideas surrounding FIRST? What do you do to make what we do seem interesting to outsiders? Create a board game? Cartoons? Comic strips <nod to SALLY FORTH>? How about a magazine... rumor once, soon to be reality, believe it or not, but that's another story <grin>. What about through art? Or the ARTS? Musicals and songs inlfuencing FIRST pop culture. Celebrities also have a lot of draw <nudge nudge>.
So that's my opinion, and those are my ideas.... sic, ain it?
-Robby O
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