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Posted by colleen.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science and WPI.

Posted on 11/5/2000 2:30 PM MST


In Reply to: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!! posted by Andy Grady on 11/5/2000 7:38 AM MST:



First off- to answer the question.. I think it would be really great to see countries like Japan and China, other technological leaders in the world, participate in FIRST..

Something I've always thought should be one of the ultimate ends of FIRST is global expansion.. to the point that we not only have a 'national champ' but a world champion.. in a true tiered competition.. teams from around the world compete in regional then national competitions to earn their way to the world championship and ultimate recoginition... other countries are always beating the US in math and science scores in testing, etc.. a competition-like atmosphere would bring us, to some level, up to the caliber of those other countries...

The next and what I would think the coolest step:
Robot Olympics!

Figure this-- you have FIRST, BattleBots, RobotWars, Junkyard Wars... soon to be much others!

So we have a robot olympics in all those catagories.. a bringing together of all the wonderful robotic competitions into one big spotlight

'oh the places you'll go...'

and language barriers-- in this ever expanding world.. where we go to school and work with people of all nationalities and languages it's something we all just have to be willing to work at to make it work..

lesson #1: How to say 'I like your robot' in many languages:
Spanish: Tengo gusto de su robusteza.
French: J'aime votre robot.
German: Ich mag Ihren Roboter.
Italian: Gradisco il vostro robot
Portugeuse: Eu gosto de seu robô
(despite the fact that my cast is signed in japanese, i can't really do any of the characters or anything in here.. but you get the jist..)