The White House AID

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FIRST Community,

On July 4th, 2012, FIRST shall host the 24 teams of the 2012 Championship Division Finalists and Winners at the White House for a one day competition on the South Lawn. The event will be broadcast around the globe on NASA Television. We choose to compete in front of the President of this United States because the challenge is one that we are willing to accept and one we are unwilling to postpone.

Before you get too excited, this is just a proposal to help get our FMS/Robot System issues resolved and to promote FIRST. It is called the White House Arbitrary Inflexible Deadline (AID). We have used Arbitrary Inflexible Deadlines very successfully in the past. One of the most famous is, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." Of course, another AID that is near and dear to our hearts is SHIP DATE!

The White House AID should go a long way to ensuring that we have a successful 2013 season. This will give us more than eight weeks to solve "the technical problems that affected the final matches at our Championship"; WOW, that seems like a long time!

What do you think?,
Lucien