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Originally Posted by Lydia_1739
And then there was no guest speaker at all
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We did have a guest speaker, except he wasn't a guest. His name was Dean Kamen and he had a very serious message, a very stern message. It was based on a story about the 3 little pigs and the houses they chose to build to sustain their quality of life and well-being.
It was a very simple message that holds a lot of truth regarding how we structure our lives, our economies as nations, and how we want to help build and re-build society from a local to a global level, using bricks.
When we are looking for ways to create presentations and promos for FIRST, we have to look no further than this speech to cull enough material to help develop an elevator speech, a promotional video, a doctoral thesis, a team challenge or goal, or simply to use as inspiration on a bad or boring day.
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It appears that there is a lot of room for discussion regarding the topic of starting new teams and sustaining those that have already formed. It might be helpful to use a smaller brush with a finer point to paint our thoughts with instead of making such broad strokes. That will focus the discussion on how FIRST can continue to grow/spread while addressing the need for FRC teams to be sustainable in order to continue to develop.