Posted by Andy Baker at 1/17/2001 12:49 PM EST
Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
This week's TIME magazine has jumped on the "IT" bandwagon.
We just got our copy in the mail yesterday, so it probably not on the newsstands quite yet... I think that Ashcroft is on the cover.
Anyway, a few months back, we were discussing sending emails to magazines or TV shows, trying to get more coverage for FIRST... here is our chance.
TIME mentioned Dean Kamen and "IT" twice in this edition:
1. In the "Winners" section of "Winners and Losers", it says this:
....DEAN KAMEN - Egghead gets $250k for book an secret invention. It "IT" a publisher-scamming device?
2. One of the last pages in the mag. has something like a "people" page.
...."Beckett would love IT"
....What is IT? We do not know yet. All we do know is that IT also goes by the code name Ginger, IT has amazed Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs, IT has created a huge online buzz, and a book proposal about IT netted $250,000 advance from Harvard Business School Press, though reportedly the publisher has no idea what the book will be about. IT was invented by Dean Kamen, a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and inventor of a wheelchair that can climb stairs... (yadda, yadda... it goes on...)
So, here is our chance. TIME is paying attention to Kamen, therefore, we should write letters to the editor and comment about what they said about Kamen and how they need to also pay attention to the FIRST Robotics Competition and FIRST Lego League.
Here is the address:
Letters@time.com
Mine will be going out today.
Andy B.