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Re: changes to the game each year
Posted by michael bastoni of team #23, PNTA, from Plymouth North High School sponsored by Boston Edison Co.

Posted on 5/2/99 3:48 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: changes to the game each year posted by Elaine Anselm on 4/30/99 12:21 PM MST:



Elaine,

I am not proposing we keep the game the same forever...just for longer periods of time than we currently do.
Imagine that the FIRST year was not 12 months...say it was 36 or 48 months....during which time we would
recruit new teams, partner with new institutions and yes like the
race car folks...sell old robots when we thought we needed to build new ones...

It;s about more choice and flexibility...not about winning...we are not
wrapped up in winning....we do it for the educational benefits...
some teams do it for the inspirational benefits...We actually do FIRST
cause it helps our students get into engineering school...we have that
well documented...

What I am proposing makes that MORE possible...not less...so please maintain your point of view.
Please stand by your attachment to changing the game every year...
But think about what you would say to another person who is MORE into it
than you...what if someone proposed we play twice a year and change that game
twice a year??????

So all I'm asking is that we do not hold 12 months sacred....who said
12 months was a inviolate number...why not 6 months?

Or more sanely,,,why not 36 or 48?

I invite all of you to look outside the box just for a minute...and tell me what you see?

Am I Alone in the woods?

Mr.B





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