Scouting => Intelligence

[Jack]

Ok. This is something that i wanted to bring up, and i finally have gotten around to it.

I don't like the word 'scouting' Everything else that first has is very professional. (3ds Max is real software, inventor is actually used in the world for design, not to mention how 'real' the robot is) But, scouting seems so ahhh.... boring and not important. In fact, one of the most important parts of busneiss is to find out what your oppoents can do. Yet, in first, scouting is much overlooked. Many people put hours and hours just watching and talking to other teams. Yet, this important part of every team does not seem too important to anyone else. But... i think that a name change would help to make this important department seem more 'real'. (Not to mention how much cooler it would be)

So, i say that we change scouting to Intelligence. This name describes what we do much better, and makes are very important roll seem more important to others both on and off the team.

So tell me what you think. Because scouting is not really a part of FIRST, in order to change the name, all we need to do is for the people in scouting to begin to call it intelligence.

BTW: 'Director of Intelligence' or 'Asst. Director of Intelligence' is way cooler than <boring> 'Head of Scouting' </boring> Whats scouting? - asks a non robotics person

So, as i said earlier, post what you think, or at least vote in the poll.

Andrew S (Director of Intelligence for Team 201 The FEDS)