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Originally Posted by Levin571
With so many students and engineers involved, I bet we could all get something up and going within a month or two like FIRST.
It's not the name "FIRST" that is important but the ideas that go into and come out of it in the long run.
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FIRST is like a snow ball. Once it started rolling, there is no way to stop it from becoming an avalach. There are way too many students who got inspired about this program already. There are way too many teachers and engineers who've seen what you can do with a program like FIRST. There are way too many parents who got the first hand experience of how FIRST changed their kids.
Only problem is, there are way to many people who will want to be in charge of the program if FIRST is to restart itself. How are we going to decide the game? Who is going to be like Dean and go off to big companies and tell them they need to support FIRST? Who gets to decide what color is going to be on the logo, and how long the name should be?
If FIRST do come apart, I fear it is going to need a strong leadership to reunit all the FIRST participant and create a program for them. Granted, it is not impossible to do so, but it's going to take a few years just to rebuilt itself to the point of a few years ago.
I didn't mean to sound negative in this subject. Actually, I have a good feeling about this whole thing. FIRST has done a fine job of setting up regional committees around the country to run their own events. There are lots of other groups like OCCRA, IndianaFIRST, WRRF, SCRRF who will work hard to support their program in their area. There were also a lot of mentors involved in the game design, and would do a great job if the same group of people get together and present their ideas again to a game design committee.
The only challenge is the stuff you don't see often. Running the organization. Coordinating the volunteers. Public relations. Accounting. Fund raising. Those are real problems you will have to solve if you are to run your own organization.