Is FIRST becoming more Pedestrian on college apps?

[techhelpbb]

If you do FIRST just to pad a resume and have little interest in it you'll not give it 100% of what you can.

If you don't give it 100% of what you can because you don't see the point you probably will not get far putting this on your college resume.

You won't be able to communicate with the vigor and energy that will sell your intentions. It's not about selling FIRST it's about selling yourself and what you do with the opportunities presented to you. Like that college education on which you plan on embarking.

FIRST is an opportunity to be motivated about something, get inexpensive education and mentoring in it and get to actually try your hand at it in a very compressed amount of time. You won't get told by FIRST you can't build a robot without a Master's degree. You won't get told you can not contribute because of a false barrier. FIRST is not really a vocational program either it is much bigger than that.

To blatantly abuse a quote from John F. Kennedy:
Ask not what FIRST can do for you, ask what you can do with FIRST.