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Re: Agreeing and Disagreeing
Posted by Becky Allen.

Student on team #16, Baxter Bomb Squad, from Mountain Home High School and Baxter Healthcare.

Posted on 3/21/2000 5:33 PM MST


In Reply to: Agreeing and Disagreeing posted by Matt Ryan on 3/21/2000 5:05 PM MST:



You are correct, Matt. FIRST is about learning, but not just about engineering. That's what you go to college for. That's what you spend four years learning. Do you think the engineers you work with learned their extreme knowledge in six weeks? No. The most important aspect of FIRST lies in the name: For INSPIRATION and RECOGNITION of Science and Technology.

FIRST is an outlet for high school students to see that science and technology has a purpose and to see that as high school students it is possible to do incredible things with technology. As a high school student, I do not have all the knowledge to do incredible things with technology, but my wonderful engineers at Baxter are able to show me magnificent possibilities because of their great knowledge. They do this in hopes of INSPIRING my fellow teammates and I to RECOGNIZE that science will benefit our future. Hopefully the engineers will have INSPIREd us to spend our money and become engineers. I really feel that this is the purpose of FIRST. FIRST isn't about building a robot and winning a competition. It's about building a robot and discovering possibilities. That's what I call winning.
~Becky


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