"i.am.FIRST -- Science is Rock and Roll" airs August 14th

[Peter Matteson]

So I finally had time to watch the special last night and after seeing the posts here I thought it was better than the comments here led me to believe it would. I understand the comments of wishing they showed a full match or more actual competition footage but I understand why it was cut the way it was due to the amount of info they had to present in a short time.

I also had a funny (sarcastic) comment from my father (read grumpy old engineer) about the special:

"So all the teams are from California and sponsored by NASA?"

As a viewer he found that the program made it sound like like FIRST only exists in California because all the teams they profiled were from there. Also he understood that the only sponsor mentioned was NASA for show sponsoring reasons. I just found it interesting that this was one of the first things he asked after, "What color was my hair in the opening montage?"