FRC booK behind the design

[Siri]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

Unfortunately, being unofficial (i.e. not an official FRC award) and not actually publishing the submissions in a book detracts from the prestige that attracts people to submit. Perhaps those interested could fund the book through a Kickstarter campaign?

Or is there another way to renew the prestige? Might FIRST be convinced to get behind it again somehow? Even if it's just adding it to the MC's speech when they announce technical awards or offering some other endorsement. A popular, high-quality, well-used resource like this would still be good publicity for FIRST and great practice and publicity for the teams, even if it's not actually published in hard copy. I bet you could also get STEM magazines to run articles about it if that could help with prestige. (We've gotten covers before for things not nearly as large as this could be.) Have you [[EDIT: Sorry, Starke, not DampRobot]] talked to FIRST at all about this?