What's in a name? New Championship Divisions

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Originally Posted by piersklein

I personally doubt almost all of the choices already given. If we look at what FIRST has chosen for names they are not engineers and there are many who are arguable more disturbing. What the requirement would seem to be is that the names be common in popular culture and used regularly by non scientists.

Originally Posted by colin340

the push toward female name for the sake of female names is really sketchy. and i would like to see poeple who made things not just ideas.

So the everyone's on the same page in this discussion: Frank Merrick, FRC Director


I doubt that FIRST would over-push undeserving females/minorities. I mean, is there really a good STEM reason that Sagan is more of a household name than Hopper? (In terms of scientific advancement--I love Cosmos as much as the next guy, his whole UFO thing not withstanding.)

Eames is interesting. Charles and Ray?