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View Poll Results: Do you think "The FIRST Robotics Competition" should be renamed?
Yes 12 12.63%
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Unread 19-03-2003, 18:37
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it should stay as FIRST


along with what Andy Baker said, it also annoys me when people put F.I.R.S.T. it's FIRST cummon people
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Sorry Patrick. I know it's not a pretty name. I know, I've been trying to explain the competition to random people I met when I travel around, and it never quite come out right when I start saying the full name.

But, the fact is, FIRST have been around more than 10 years, and the name itself have its own reputation. Once you change the name, people might mis-understand it as somethign else, or think that something changed the organization.

Besides, all my FIRST shirts have the FIRST logo and FIRST on it, so changing it would make them worthless .

I just don't have the heart to change the name and throw away what it's been building up the past decade. I know it's just a name change, but everything wonderful about FIRST is attached to it already.

If I have any talent or english writing skills at all, I would write a poem or a song about the name FIRST just about... now.
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The name is, was, and always will be FIRST. Actually at Disney a few years ago on the info sign it said it was FIRST--Foundation for the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.
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Originally posted by D.J. Fluck
My theory:

If it isn't broken, do not fix it. FIRST has always been FIRST and it should always remain FIRST
agreed FIRST should stay as FIRST, great idea and all to change it but FIRST is known for its oustanding outcome of its student robotics team member capabilities in both what they have learned and what they have put together as a team.


edit... so many people with the right idea not to change the name of FIRST so lil space to quote them all.

The T-shirts would not look right with a long sentence stating both the organization and what its intents are to the HS students.

FIRST is simple both in describing the organization and its intentions the main one to "Inspire". and it looks a whole lot better on the T-shirts
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you have to leave it you dont change something that everyone knows like if you changed FIRST name it would kinda be wierd cause no one knows the new name i mean FIRST has a repitation to stay with and if you change the name you lose that
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why would you change the name....FIRST is FIRST...thats that....

settled right there...don't ever change the name....
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CHANGE IT

I think we should change it because of the fact that if FIRST is to grow and prosper more, it will have to win the PR game. In order to do this, we have to appear cooler (i.e. better game, scoring ,etc.) I new name might go well with this.
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keep FIRST as FIRST..you dont see people trying to change NHL, NBA, or NFL, that is what they are called and they are gonna stay that way.
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I also voted to keep it as FIRST. It's had a 10+ year run, there is no need to change the name. The name perfectly describes the program, acronym or not. Besides as someone mentioned earlier, FIRST is not a product to be packaged and sold. This is not a touchy-feelly program designed to make everyone feel good. Its an program to inspire and introduce high schoolers into what engineering actually is. The competition itself is only a side-diversion. The real goal of the program is to inspire high schoolers into fields of science and technology.

Let's not let the FIRST program turn into a post-modernistic ideal. It is not something to be bought and sold. It's something for the students, for their futures. Let's not trample on that ideal.
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