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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 10/15/99 6:47 PM MST


In Reply to: Mickeyvision posted by Dodd Stacy on 10/15/99 3:10 PM MST:



Dodd,

I think the goal is not necessarily to have many watch the few, but to have many watch the (relatively) few College and Pro teams while also playing a similar sport in their own neighborhoods and schools.

The correspondence between the vision I have for FIRST and the reality of little league, the NCAA and Major League Baseball is not exact, but close.

I think that FIRST will develop into a 'sport' in the sense that there will be a stratification of teams based on talent and resource levels.

Most elementary and junior high school will have a team playing a game appropriate for their level.

Most high schools will have teams and will play a more challenging game.

Big Time Colleges will have teams that are the pride of their entire school playing a game that only the very best of the best could even hope to compete in.

From this elite group a truly miniscule group of extremely talented college FIRST athletes will make it to the FIRST Pro League (the FPL), where big bucks, professional prowess, and corporate pride are put to the test in front of huge TV crowds with all the associated celebrities.

This is the world that I think FIRST is trying to make a reality. I want to live in a world that worries about kids skipping gym in order to sneak out and solve some nagging engineering problem that is dogging their FIRST robot.

It is this vision that has made me the FIRST fanatic that I am.

Join the cause.

Joe J.