[Cory]

When I was in high school I couldn't care less about the participation medals. I wanted to win gold medals, not be handed a bronze one for showing up, and like others, I have no idea where mine even are.

I still don't care about the medals, but this brings up other issues that Madison and Stephen alluded to.

If they cut costs by not giving us medals, how does the experience my $6,000 currently buys me improve elsewhere? Are they going to pass the savings on to us? I don't buy the argument that any cost savings are passed on to us in the form of registration fees not being increased. When FIRST is adding $1M every year to their spendable cash assets, they have no reason to be charging us more.

If getting rid of metals saves $100,000 (random number...just tossing that out there) and nothing happens with that $100,000 other than FIRST's cash assets in the FY2010 report increasing, we didn't benefit at all by moving to a cheaper memento.