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Originally Posted by RoboMom
You don't need to slap it down. You just need to put your ideas down in a reasonable list. It's not that FIRST doesn't care. It's that there are so few people (less than 50) dealing with so many students (50,000+) and volunteers (15,000+), and things often get overlooked. Sometimes it's hard, with all the complaints and feedback to figure out what is really important. I think your ideas are all great. You write them and I'll make sure they are delivered.
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Thanks for your Promise to deliver. I look forward to the follow through.
BTW: The Term SLAP IT DOWN I'm sure was just a descriptive story telling visual writing technique and not a reference to a violent rush on the FIRST headquarters.
As far as past experiences: I've personally talked to Dean Kamen during a Chairman's Award Reception at his house and he told me that the reason they don't give us more of a presence at the events is because he doesn't want the appearance of a "Science Fair" when I brought out several points as to why that didn't have to be the case he agreed and pointed me to the person in charge of Corporate relationships (with people like Autodesk) i spoke to her and she happen to be talking to two Autodesk Reps at that moment and we all sat down and talked for 45min-1hr and threw some Ideas around on how to improve the situation- (this was 2-summers ago after the First regional award started) They seemed agreeable and many times I offered my services to at least bounce ideas off of. When the season approached I emailed them and again offered my services and I heard nothing. When the season came- almost nothing changed-except they didn't send runner ups to the Nationals and they got rid of the Regionalization thing.
At the regionals- I still had to contact the regional coordinator and suggest that they play the animations at the breaks and play the Winner when the award was presented. Both of which they hadn't planned on. This year I asked them to play the Animation on Sat (because they didn't on Fri) and I assumed they'd play the winner (my what short memories they have) They Didn't. As well as the fact that they played Autodesk's Compilation of Select Animations form several years and not this years entries.
In addition to that they labeled our animation as TEAM 270 and Not 230. Which is slightly better than the mistake they did at the nationals a couple years ago when they listed out animation in the menu but linked to team 231 (or who ever was after us) and theirs was played twice and ours not at all.
All I want is some recognition from FIRST that Science and Technology is actually involved in what we do. It pretty hard to do an animation with out Computers (at least for this competition) Last I checked that involved Technology and Science (Physics, Biology, Computer Science, Programming, etc.)
So I'd love to see someone follow through on geetign our Ideas Implemented.
Part of the problem is that FIRST considers this an AUTODESK Competition and not truely part of FIRST. And that is stated by FIRST and AUTODESK.
Lots of luck- I'm trying to do the same on my end. You all have great Ideas just keep pushing.