A Request

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by FTC7584

You said -



The way I read it, it seemed to me that you thought FTC wasn't able to help change the culture, something FRC could.

I think it isn't the job of one competition level of FIRST to change the culture, but rather all of FIRST as an organization. That'd be like saying that only doctors with a PhD. have the job of helping people overcome sickness.

You're mistaking the impact on students with the actual goal of culture change. Let me give you an example and maybe you can see why you're wrong.

When a father and son watch football together and the kid is inspired to go outside and toss a ball around because he wants to be like [some football player that I don't know cuz I don't watch it]. What were they watching? peewee football or the NFL? FTC is peewee football. It impacts the students in it but it's a crap tool for inspiring students not involved. For that you need something exciting, something sexy.