[Alex Pelan]

Originally Posted by Dorienne Plait

I honestly don't find it to be attracting only geeks.
I'm not even close to being a geek, really. I'm more of an outgoing business person with serious PR skills. As many people may have found out. ;-)
But really, FIRST attracts all kinds of people; nerds, geeks, dorks, preps, techies, PR people, financial persons, etc. It's a wide range of people, and that's the amazing thing people hardly recognize. FIRST attracts everyone. It appeals to so many different people.
What we need to let people know is that there's something in FIRST for everyone. Not just engineering skills for geeks. There's PR skills, financial skills, CAD skills, Animation, Website building, etc. The list is practically endless!
That's the message we need to convey. FIRST can appeal to all. We just need to show that to them.

Exactly. Each FIRST team is like a mini corporation, and it needs people and trains people for all walks of life. I'm sure that if it was mandatory for freshman at schools that the teams would be huge, with some schools requiring more than one team. The problem is getting kids to committ the time necessary and the interest.