A Request

[Foster]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

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.

/sigh, I wish you could not type so fast.

Pop and Junior go to FRC and watch. "Gee would like to do that, it looks hard"

Pop and Junior go to VEX/FTC. "Gee like to do that. Welp, that looks like the Erector set I had as a kid, lets go see."

Me: "Why sure it's easy, look here, just nuts and bolts, if you know your right from your left and can button a shirt you can build one. (Need to be able to do righty tighty / leffty loosey and the button shirt means you have the dexterity to put the parts together).

And don't disrespect Pewee or Little League. The Pro guys got started there. You never know what motivates. I see stuff and go "cool, out of my skillset", but I see an easier / lower level and go "Hey, I can do that" and I do and oddly I get better. And soon I have that skillset to.

/rant 2