[Ginger Power]

I would love to live in a world that celebrates STEM as much as we celebrate athletics, which is what FIRST helps to do in every country it spreads to.

I completely understand your perspective in that FIRST was started as a response to a need in the USA for more people in the technical professions. That need that is shared by most countries I would think. While it's true that many other countries celebrate STEM more than we do (India graduates almost as many engineers every year as we have total in the USA), I believe every country would be benefited from having FIRST. The more smart people there are in the world, the better off we all are.

From FIRST's perspective, expanding globally completely fits with their mission statement. I hope every day that FIRST blows up globally and becomes a household name in the near future.