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Re: FIRST Philosophy 101
I love this debate, every time it comes up!

I will add my $0.02 here because I think that I view this situation a little differently than some.

I am not in FIRST to inspire the 20 some odd students on my team.

To me, if that were the extent of the goal, it would be an extremely inefficient use of all our time. My goal in FIRST is to inspire all of the students on all of the teams. The way to do that is to "contribute to the excellence of the event". We do that by competing, as a team, to the best of our abilities. The students that I have known in FIRST over my 8 years of involvement have been far more inspired by the competition and some of the jaw dropping creations of "elite" teams than by anything that we made ourselves. I will continue to drive 703 - Team Phoenix to be one of the "elite" teams because I want us to have that same impact on the thousands of students. I want all of you to do the same. That is how we will convince young people that engineering is "cool".

Matt B.
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