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Re: FRC Blogged - Something New – FIRST Dean’s List Changes

Personally, I like the Sophomore/Junior part of this. While it's great to recognize graduating seniors who did a fantastic job (and that's something I would encourage every team to find a way to do), an award like this should mean something more than just recognition.

A Dean's List finalist is someone everyone in FIRST should be able to look up to. It's hard to do that if you never see that individual again, which is a sad part of graduating - once you're off to college, there isn't time for much else (And I'm a strong proponent of graduates taking at least a year off from FIRST to get the college experience before coming back as a mentor!). By recognizing Sophomores and Juniors, we give them another year or two to use that recognition and title to help affect FIRST in their community before they go off to college.

So, as a community lets change how we treat the Dean's List. Lets look at it not as a recognition award that we forget the next year. Lets look at the students who win it as the ones we'll turn to to help enhance the entire FIRST community over the next year!
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