[Kartoffee]

I'm kind of mixed about this. On one hand, FIRST depends equally on art or photography. Yet, STEM is a very small part of a FIRST team. FIRST clearly is in favor of teams doing more outside of STEM, such as the Chairman's Award. Also, there is a certain weight about the term "science". Science is the laws of the universe. These laws have no room for error. Gravity isn't about 10m/s^2, it is 9.8, and will always be as long as the planet stays a closed system. The same can't be said for arts. Art is purely objective. The STEAM issue is like behavioral science; science is definite, but human behaviors aren't.

That being said, our team (Bionic Blackhawks) is very dependent on our student's concerted effort to produce a public image of our team at every event. I think that the art field is worthy of recognition, but I would not put it on the same plane as science and mathematics.