[Brandon Martus]

Bill Miller from FIRST asked me to post this on behalf of FIRST:

TO: The FIRST Community
FROM: Bill Miller, Director FIRST Robotics Competition
RE: FIRST Principles


At FIRST we aspire to some important goals. One of the most important is to change our culture. We try to achieve our goals by operating according to a different set of principles and imbedding them in everything about FIRST - including what we celebrate and what it’s like to attend our events.

Yesterday, music that violated those principles was played at one of our events. The music reflected things in our culture we want to change, not celebrate. It had no place at a FIRST event.

I apologize to the members of the FIRST community who had to hear it. I also want to assure you it won’t be played again at one of our events.

Thank you for your understanding and best of luck in the season.