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Re: FIRST website is an embarasment

The new website certainly brings up the question of "who is this made for". It does not seem to be for the participants (students, teachers, and mentors) in FIRST, but rather for the sponsors.

I'd argue that while pretty and it would draw in a new person that for some reason stumbles to FIRST without knowing what it is, I don't find it to be helpful for them either. The design is there to be helpful - but clicking on "parents" "kids" or "educators" takes you to the same area. It does just enough to maybe convince someone they want to do it, but then provides no useful information beyond that. It's also pretty blatantly biased towards "starting a new team" rather than finding an existing team. I know I would never recommend someone to start a new team without first finding an existing team.

Seems to me that those 4 things of parents, kids, educators, volunteers should be something more like "new participants", "existing participants" and "volunteers"
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