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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Oh, this was serious... I thought this was gonna turn into a gif thread cuz that'd be art.
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Does that make me an Artist?
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Anyways. Let's toss up a hypothetical situation.
Let's say I am a member of an Artist's Forum. On this forum, a thread gets created entitled 'STEAM Award Com(m)ing to local Art Fair'. Let's also assume that a member of the community begins an outrage that Art is superior to everything related to STEM and that the two are completely unrelated and should never be used in the same sentence, acronym, or anything.
I dunno 'bout you, but that would rustle my jimmies a bit.
One of my good friends, a fellow 125 mentor, is an Art Teacher at a local elementary school. This Art Teacher just recently received a grant to get a 3D printer in her art classroom to help expose her students to using Technology to create Art. This teacher, who majored in Art in college, also now mentors elementary robotics teams across the Boston Area, bringing her creative and artistic mind to use when helping her students.
I won't speak for her, but I can only assume that if she read the sentiment about Art not having a place in FRC, it would come across offensive.
There is a place for Art in robotics, especially in FIRST. Art is used in digital media, Design of robots, and I know all of us have referred to a robot or two as a "Piece of Art". Various awards available to teams scream Art to me. Even technical awards, where a preferred mechanism is 'Elegant', means to me that some sort of creative artistic process must have happened to make the mechanism even just look good.