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Re: Dean Kamen, Manual Laborers, and You

I wish Dean Kamen would have read over his speech and thought about it a little more. It is his biggest speech of the year at FIRST. And lets be real, he isn't the worlds best orator. In 7 years, I have yet to stay awake for an entire speech (no offense Dean). I know a few mentors in my area that bet on how long his speech will last. I suppose it is a privilege to hear him speak but if you follow every word of another man, who do you become. It is our own responsibility to take what positive things we want from speeches to help us grow as people individually. What I am trying to say is that I don't think many of the kids took that idea away from the speech (if any were awake to begin with - jk).

One of the biggest helpers to my team in HS outside of the actual teachers was is a manual laborer and I am sure a lot of other teams have stories like this about mentors. Hell, I work as a janitor in a research facility every summer. I love it. And, I'm sure a lot of these other mentors, like mine, wanted to give Dean a piece of their mind.

Again, I just wish he read over his speech a little and would have chosen his words more carefully as to not upset manual laborers because they play a very very role in helping FIRST function, and a very very very large role why the World turns (believe it or not, its not the Segway that does this. or any other scientific reason). And also because in most people eyes', he represents to the rest of the world, the collection of people that make up FIRST
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