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This year's closing...

Thanks for posting that - it's a very good speech that I will be pushing on my team.

While reading this, I remembered that I really enjoyed this year's closing speech at the nationals and I transcribed it. I suppose you could still watch the real thing (hearing it is always best), but incase anyone wants it in text, here it is:


Dean:
It’s rare to see students from Middle School, High School, College, working at something very intense along with parents, teachers, engineers, mentors, professionals, from a whole community, because I think it’s an unintended consequence of the culture of America, but we’re really good at efficiently separating all those people which is why I think so many kids never think about science or engineering students are separated very early in life, they go to school engineers are in laboratories or companies, manufacturing floors. students rarely get to see what real scientists, engineers and professionals do. This is extraordinary, that’s why it’s important. When kids get out of school at the end of the day, their interaction with adults: maybe it’s television; seeing what we call superstars, or superheroes; not realistic representations. They have parents that are working hard these days, probably both of them working; maybe two jobs. For all sorts of reasons that I can’t explain, it’s pretty clear to me that it’s a rare event that students get to really interact with the real heroes, the real professionals, that build this country; that provide our standard of living, that are working toward your own and their own futures; it’s perhaps good news and bad news about FIRST. The fact that we can uniquely put all these people in a room, and allow all these students to interface and interact with all these very real people, it seems to me is what makes FIRST so special and it is why every year I ask you to what I’m going to ask you to do again. But it’s for the first time this year that I realize that while our board struggles with how we can grow bigger, faster, it’s the good new and the bad news of FIRST. The most unique and important characteristic is it tears town the separations that are so efficiently put in our society to keep all these groups separated. Which means then that the only way that FIRST will work is if we keep all of these engineers and mentors and teachers and parents and students together. That’s a very labor intensive exercise. It requires enormous effort by individual people. It doesn’t scale up unless every time we get more students, we get more mentors, so that the constant is the ability to put real, important heroes of our culture in direct contact with the students and have them all working hand in hand on a project; all figuring out what’s really possible; all with gracious professionalism. Well, if that’s the nub of it, and it’s gonna continue in my mind to take this extraordinary effort by all of the people that have made this possible for all of the students; this personally individual effort I will ask you what I ask you by tradition every year: all the students, stand up and look right at those mentors and professionals and teachers and parents and thank them for what they’re doing for you.
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