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...boredom strikes back..
Posted by colleen.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Coach on team #246, a FIRST-aholic, from John D. O'Byrant High School/Boston Latin Academy and NSTAR/Boston University/UTC/Raytheon/MassPEP.
Posted on 5/29/2000 8:42 PM MST
In Reply to: The mission of FIRST posted by Jon on 5/29/2000 7:24 PM MST:
cause jon would kill me if i didn't respond now...
ok - what i think (i know this is new to all of you..)..
to me- FIRST's mission is to inspire kids to recognize and achieve in the world of science and technology.. my mission as a 'product' of this dream is to help inspire students the way i was so lucky to have been during my 4 years of high school.. it's unfortunate that all students all over the world can't have this opportunity.. so i think it's only fair that my mission be to open this to as many of them as possible..
and how i do that.. in many ways.. back in high school we did many demos at many schools and places for young students.. we travelled as far as Puerto Rico to start new FIRST teams..
now as a college student and a mentor.. i volunteered my time with the League Lego competition at the Boston Science Musuem (Mr. B, Ron and all the other Plymouth guys helped me have such a great time!).. as well, this summer I'm teaching a 2-week summer enrichment camp on space exploration that involves also learning the Lego Mindstorms kits..
on an older-FIRST level.. I help mentor the team at BU and open opportunities up to those kids.. I worked with FAIHM and sharingFIRST on projects over at MIT.. and building off that and DYF developing ways to encourage more girls to get involved in science and technology.. mainly, right now, I've helped start up BostonFIRST, an organization focused on bring teams together and sharing resources to help promote and encourage FIRST.. as part of that and much part of my own personal work, I'm looking into contacting government officials to get them to have a better awareness as to the necessity of FIRST in changing the focus of students and the integral part it can play on education.. anyone from the Massachusetts area knows the emphasis lately that has been placed on improving educational standards with the MCAS and Teacher-testing.. i'm hoping that we can work with the mass. state legislature to get recognition to school's that encourage the participation of such programs as FIRST that make a proven difference in the quality of education and quality of students in the school body (just look at the schools that have been completely turned around because of FIRST)...Within BostonFIRST, we're going to look to recruit more FIRST teams and boom New England with science and technology prepared students...
basically, FIRST's goal is to inspire, my goal is to help achieve their goal.. with any and all effort it takes..
See ya at Battlecry Jon :-)
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