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Originally Posted by Zebra_Fact_Man
I wonder if they even ran it past a couple of college aged students to see what they thought about it. You know, like beta-testing.
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I think the intention of speaker was initially to beta-test the document at the GOFIRST meeting. However, the speaker had presented to the group at meetings in the past and was familiar with the fact that many of the students in attendance at these meetings are not FIRST alumni. When this document was delivered, I think the attendees of the meeting were very surprised, because the content of the meeting was not what they had been told it would be. I think if GOFIRST had been asked to create a focus group for reviewing this document, rather than having it sprung upon the group at a meeting for a different purpose, the feedback from college students could have been given before the document was distributed to UMN students who had never volunteered and in some cases didn't even know what FIRST was. Since this wasn't done, students who had never volunteered before received a document that probably made them uncomfortable and therefore now are probably even more hesitant to volunteer than they were before.
As always, my comments are my own opinion and do not reflect the opinions of any of the groups I'm associated with.