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Originally Posted by SilenceNoMore
FIRST to me has turned into some kinda of monster (HEY!). An unorganized, unprofessional, and overstretched beast. It will only get worse, trust me.
This isn't your daddy's FIRST anymore, boys and girls. It is obvious that FIRST's main goal is no longer to inspire high school students to become engineers/scientists. It is now extremely political and money-oriented. I not saying that these two forces should be absent from FIRST, however they play too big of a role.
FIRST is not heading in a good direction.
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your right this isnt my fathers FIRST, seeing as FIRST wasnt around when my father was in highschool... My opinion on FIRST is exactly the opposite, When you have a differnt game every year, how well do you expect it to be organized, things come up, as the bumper sticker says <explitive deleted> happens no one can plan for everything, you think the first football game was as organized as it is now, you think sports areas concerned about money as they were many years ago when they first started, FIRST is worried about sponsorship, they arent under Dean Kamen's Wing anymore, He wants to see this Organization survive on its own. The Regionals in most cases are now souly run by volunteers I think that is great, now FIRST can focus on giving you the student (atleast i am assuming your a student since you dont have the guts to put a number)
I think that you will find that FIRST is doing a great job with what it has, its growning extremly fast, and giving us tastes of todays modern technology, i think it should be mandatory for Dave Lavery to tell his "Inspirational Story" that he gave during The Cheasapeake Regional's first year, To me thats what FIRST is all about giving kids a chance to build robots with engineers, and Tradesmen and people who can give them insight into what they may want to do
I see nothing "politicaly or money-oriented" about that
-Big Mike the Thouroughly Inspired College Student