What's in a name? New Championship Divisions

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Joseph Fourier

[Riverdance]

Hopper and Lovelace Divisions sound perfect. We need more representation for women in STEM, and I think that starts with giving the inspirational ladies that came before us the recognition they deserve. I also would love to see the Tesla Division be instated.

[Karthik]

I'd go with Abel and Galois, just for the mathematical humour of having an Abel Field (more aptly called the Abelian Field) and a Galois Field. Of course these fields would have to be "grouped" together.

Okay, I'm done.

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Karthik

I'd go with Abel and Galois, just for the mathematical humour of having an Abel Field (more aptly called the Abelian Field) and a Galois Field. Of course these fields would have to be "grouped" together.

Okay, I'm done.

Nice

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Dean often says something along the lines of "Ask a kid to name a famous person from Hollywood or professional sports and they will rattle them off all day. Ask them to name a famous currently active scientist or engineer and they give you a blank stare".

With that, I'd love to see a yearly rotating division name. This division would be named after a new scientist every year. The names would be sampled from currently active scientists and engineers. It would be a great way to honor active scientists while also allowing the students to learn a bit more about current research topics.

[Sam390250]

Maxwell!! Maxwell's equation are essential to physics and engineering!

[JVN]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Dean often says something along the lines of "Ask a kid to name a famous person from Hollywood or professional sports and they will rattle them off all day. Ask them to name a famous currently active scientist or engineer and they give you a blank stare".

With that, I'd love to see a yearly rotating division name. This division would be named after a new scientist every year. The names would be sampled from currently active scientists and engineers. It would be a great way to honor active scientists while also allowing the students to learn a bit more about current research topics.

This is a fantastic idea. Even better would be if that same scientist or engineer would come to speak and be recognized.

[brennonbrimhall]

Originally Posted by JVN

This is a fantastic idea. Even better would be if that same scientist or engineer would come to speak and be recognized.

That would be really cool. You could even have that engineer/scientist of honor personally hand out the division championship banners/medals for their division.

[Phyrxes]

This would be an awesome way to connect students with academic role models.

[Oblarg]

Originally Posted by Karthik

I'd go with Abel and Galois, just for the mathematical humour of having an Abel Field (more aptly called the Abelian Field) and a Galois Field. Of course these fields would have to be "grouped" together.

Okay, I'm done.

Not to nitpick, but for rings (and, by extension, fields) you use "commutative," not "Abelian" (in fact, fields are all assumed to be commutative; if not, they're called skew fields).

[Grim Tuesday]

I love the idea of that - especially a scientist, since I think FIRST often gets a bit too much into engineering and misses out on the "S." It would be great if there were a life-scientist or something one year, as most of FIRST seems centered on physical sciences, and a lot of my team ended up in college for biology and the like.