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Originally posted by JosephM
My question is this: does FIRST-A-Holics have to be graduated from collage? Plus, why must they be involved with one other team? Why not be involved with the FIRST program in general? Look at M who dosn't have a team.
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They don’t have to be graduated from colleges. However, one of the big thing for FIRST is to inspire high school students to go to college, and finish a engineering or science/technology related degree.
But simply putting it, going through college is a special phrase of growth that is very important to a person's life, and adding FIRST into that phrase, you got a whole 4 years (maybe even more) full of challenges, self-analysis, interesting stories, success, failure, and finally a some what grown up adult after it.
Going to college is a phrase where you become independent, and work hard for a few years so you will be prepare to do something you really want to in your life. A lot of time it is the turning point for a person, because you finally leave the roof of your parents, and go out there figuring out what you want and what's best for you. It is through these kind of times when you truly understand the magnitude of the impact of this competition.
You don't have to dedicated yourself to one team. M isn't doing that anymore. Neither am I, nor a whole bunch of other people across the country. Once you realize your skills and talents can be helpful to lots of people out there, you can do whatever you want to spread yourself to as many team as possible.
Having all that said, I agree with others that having a club for College FIRST-a-holics is a good idea. It will be designed to be a support group for college FIRSTers, and not a status thing. Any college student can join. The most basic thing we can do is set up a network so the college students can contact each other, and share stories or experiences. The things you can do with this are limited by your imagination only, but it is easier to start small and simple.