Thread: The Case For 'Regionalizing' teams at the Nationals.
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Posted by Meg Z..

Student on team #349, Robahamas, from International Academy and Ford Motor Co..

Posted on 8/15/2000 4:06 PM MST


In Reply to: We gotta push for this!!! posted by Andy Baker on 8/15/2000 11:47 AM MST:



: Finally, we'll have a made-for-TV event.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the purpose of FIRST was ever supposed to be getting on TV. It might be great if one day FIRST was recognized as a TV-worthy event, but motivation behind any changes made should not be publicity. FIRST is meant to involve students in engineering. There are already all too many robots designed and built entirely by engineers with little or no student input and participation. Making it all about being on TV will just make this worse. When it comes down to it, fun as the competitions are and exciting as it is to win, FIRST is meant to be about the robot experience, not being famous.

Please note: I do not intend this to be in any way an attack on the ideas presented about changes in nationals. I simply think we all need to stay in the spirit of FIRST.

Meg



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