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Re: Congressional Robotics Caucus
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Originally Posted by rfolea View Post
Actually, the best quote of the day from Dean was "You do NOT have to put a FIRST team in EVERY high school - only the ones you care about"
And if you would carefully dissect what the Caucus is pushing, it's robotics education "in general" as it may be the most powerful way to meet our society's STEM needs. Dean's agenda is "a FIRST team in every school" which fits nicely as a subset. IF funding were to ever become available, I believe it would be for the more generalized need - but there's still work to be done to get there. IF federal funding for robotics education would ever exist, I would think/hope that FIRST teams would be some of the best on the planet at figuring out how to access such funds. Of course, for now, that's all conjecture. Lots of work to be done to get there, but the work of the Caucus is certainly rolling the ball in a positive direction.
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