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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
Just a quick note.
That logo violates First's branding standards. Essentially there is not enough whitespace between your words and the FIRST's logo vertically.
Its probably not a huge deal right now but in the long road if this gets as big as you want it could cause some issues.
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There was an attempt to use the guidelines somewhere even though that was a little lost, though I am trying to contact FIRST about
A) Actually using their legal property for our logo
B) If there should be improvements so that the logo can fit better with the branding (Which there most definitely are)
Thank you for the heads up though!
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Originally Posted by jds2001
As a gay mentor (who, as some others in this thread have said, doesn't make a big deal about it to my team - in fact, I am so heteronormative that my team likely has no idea) I can see where there's non-inclusive language being used even on my team that makes me slightly uncomfortable. I'm able to just shrug it off and not worry about it. However, when I put myself in the shoes of a student, I can easily see how some of this language could make a student feel unwelcome and ostracized, especially if they weren't yet comfortable enough with themselves and figuring out their identity.
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We'll be doing our best to supply resources for mentors and students alike! Hopefully mentors will not only benefit by helping team members, but by feeling included themselves.
Though I'm sure many LGBT+ FIRST-ers know the feeling of team members saying things that would make them uncomfortable even when they don't realize it. I know that personally I do and it's a tad enlightening to see that even mentors feel that way!
Keep up the good work with your team!
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Originally Posted by New Lightning
True I believe that most of the work will have to come from changes within teams. But having said that, having a movement that spans all of first, to help guide teams to the kind of changes that are necessary, will have a much larger impact than leaving it up to the individual teams to try and figure out what changes are needed.
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As was said, changing FIRST as a whole would be a slow and arduous process that would most likely not go very well as there are clashes in beliefs, but going with teams at a time would be the way to go (like you said). Even if it were only a handful of students on a team that's still an impact that we want to have.
With that being said, we're not going to try our hand and force teams to be accepting of LGBT+ people, but we hope that people will see that it's the right thing to do because it effects more people within FIRST than people realize.