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Re: Is FIRST a robot building CONTEST?
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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
Exactly. FIRST is about teaching kids about engineering and getting them interested in it. I fail to see how this is possible without a robot. Or without some other form of engineering challenge that we'd be discussing instead of a robot.
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It's actually quite easy to get kids interested in science without having them do anything. All you tell them is look what you can do with science. Heheh.... Even I couldn't believe that it's possible to dip your hand really quickly into liquid nitrogen without anything happening to it. Even Asimo generated a larger response then I would have imagined. There was probably enough people to see it to fill an regional.
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Last edited by Adam Y. : 15-03-2005 at 13:48.
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