Let me speak on this...
If my school had a FIRST team I'm sure I would have taken a greater interest in school instead of taking the GED route and jumping into the working world so soon. I never even heard of FIRST till just last year and that was by accident.
Mind you I 'm not crying over the choices I've made, and all in all I think I've done alright.
Currently I'm working with some folks trying to get a robotics team together to help kids with parents in prison. Whats known as "at risk" kids. With over two million men and women currently locked up you'd be shocked at how many children there are at risk.
Give them something to be interested in at school and maybe keep them from making the same mistakes I did.
An adult or college level FIRST might be interesting for them that still want to play with the robots but FIRST is about the kids...about helping them to be the best adults they can be. To take away from that mission would be a major mistake even a Protronie like I might not be able to fix.
Okay I'll get off the soapbox now...
