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Re: Extreme League in on one one of the continuum
Posted by Matt Leese.

Student on team #7 from Parkville High School and NASA, Black & Decker, AAI, Raytheon.

Posted on 8/25/2000 9:22 PM MST


In Reply to: Extreme League in on one one of the continuum posted by Joe Johnson on 8/23/2000 8:42 PM MST:



Ok, here's my main problem with the propsed idea. First of all, the idea of FIRST is to promote engineering in students. Having a pro-league without students kind of defeats the purpose of that. Secondly, it would be a lot harder to get people (read engineers) to help out with the high school league if they could do it themselves at the pro-level. It would also be a bit harder to get company involvement. One of the few ways (IMHO) that teams getting sponsorship is because of the 'coolness' factor of FIRST -- it's unique. If there's something bigger and badder out there it's going to be a lot harder to get sponsored.

Now one thing that I would like to see would be a college level competition but once you get beyond that I think you start getting away from the real purpose of FIRST. You would have a point with the 'role models' idea but I figure you're more likely to be impressed by the drivers than the engineers (sort of like Formula 1, no?). That's just my $.02.

Matt -- sorry for the rant


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