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Re: FIRST on "The Fosters" - Monday Nights on FreeForm 8e/5p Starting Tonight!

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Originally Posted by bkahl View Post
Maybe don't stomp all over our mentors, our mission, a platinum sponsor, and display the opposite of gracious professionalism next to FIRST's name like they did on the Hollywood high horse?
I understand your anger, but all over might just be a tad harsh.

They did show the main mentor of Anchor bots in a good light and the importance of having an encouraging mentor on your team. He supported his team and his students, and that's what a mentor also does. So maybe not all over but certainly understand the engineer mentor comments.

A platinum sponsor wasn't "stomped all over" and the scene was much more about the individual mentors on team palomar than on the company as a whole.
People are not solely defined by the companies they work for, but rather their own personality. With that said, I understand the disgust behind the use of that phrase being read as "engineering mentors are bad" and its unfortunate the community is upset. And although this program is BUILT on hardworking engineering mentors, I don't think that idealism was as lost in the show as many are making it out to be.

Gracious Professionalism- I thought they upheld that value fine. They stressed the competition was about cooperating, working together, and learning more. The entire story line with "Baby Got Bots" and collaborating to make one mechanism work, and although I understand the "we need to beat Palomar mentality" is not the typical definition of a gracious professional, it honestly is true to events.

Everyone wants to beat the best, competitiveness is in all of us.

I understand everyone's lively comments about the show.

But I encourage everyone to get out and read comments from people who just watch the show and are not FIRST participants. The comments are amazing.
I've read great ones like "wait this is real? Sign me up" and "Those robots were so cool! "

One of my favorite parts they did with our story line is they did not make everyone a typical nerd, and did not point out only geniuses can do this. I really think they captured that anyone can do this and that robotics is competitive and fun. It is truly a sport of the mind! I love that the characters were so intense about competition because that's how a lot of us are!



The show averages about 1 million viewers per episode of people who would of not been exposed to FIRST otherwise! And although the episode is not the cookie cutter depiction of FIRST, I do think they got a lot of aspects right and that alone makes me proud and excited this is on TV.

With that said, god I hated the "$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#es get things done." Devaluing the hard work by calling the women $@#$@#$@#$@#$@#es is not okay in any world .
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