Thoughts on new US FIRST splash page?

[Meredith Novak]

I just sent the following in an email to my FLL Partner Services Manager:

"Please don’t label me one of the complainers, but would you please pass on my concern with the new flash page at usfirst.org? It features a music personality whose music is not allowed at our events.

I have an FLL team going on television to promote FLL Saturday. I have just instructed them to avoid mentioning the site and direct interested people to our Arkansas FLL site. This is a Christian home school team (as are a lot of ours here) and I know the parents would not be thrilled with this personality as a role model.

We are having a small tournament Saturday at a science museum to promote FLL and I am appearing before a group of 400 home schoolers as well as the Education Committee of the Arkansas State Senate in the next few days. The current website portal would not be a positive thing for any of these audiences and I am in the position of having to avoid using the site altogether or offering some sort of explanation.

I was in Manchester and thought Will.I.Am appearing at kick-off was fun for the older kids and exciting to some, I guess. But my audience is corporate CEOs, government officials, school superintendents and parents in a conservative state.

I can still use a link to the information sections of the website in my emails, but all of my cards, documentation, etc. have the usfirst address on them."

If this was really about changing the culture, FIRST would be on Will.I.Am's website.