[gvarndell]

Originally Posted by Rick Wagner

Given FIRST's mission to change culture and inspire youth to pursue careers and education in science and technology, I assume team sponsors intend to help with that mission and agree that it's desirable to change culture in that direction.

Many of us make the same assumption Rick -- nicely stated.
I would take it beyond assumption though and go so far as to say we expect it.
If we expect less, we are prostituting ourselves.
Yeah, get the money, and you can build a robot.
But is that our goal?