FIRST President Paul R. Gudonis spoke at the STL regional last week, and quoted Burt Rutan as saying that the current crop of engineering students will be the worlds first generation of
spaceship designers. And that many of those people are in the stands, in the pits, and on the field at FIRST events now.
In the world I imagine, Dave is director of interplanetary exploration ... at STAR FLEET COMMAND. Woody is the President of STAR FLEET ACADEMY.
And Dean is Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer of SPACESHIP RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.
You are in good company, KathieK! Nerds will lead us to the world of our imagination.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)