FIRST on "The Fosters" - Monday Nights on FreeForm 8e/5p Starting Tonight!

[itsjustjon]

I just wanted to say thank you to all the teams who volunteered their time and their robots on the Fosters! You guys went out of your way to make robotics and engineering a known high-school program by showing it to millions of Americans on prime-time TV.

Okay, so a few details here and there might be out of place, but the message and truth of the story being told is still very accurate: High-schoolers can build a robot as a team, learn a lot of cool concepts, compete with their machine, and play to win a competition.

As far as I'm concerned, many more people would be interested in joining FIRST by watching what the Fosters produced than by watching some footage from a regional or a documentary. We aren't all engineering or analytical types, and that's definitely not the type of which this TV show's audience is composed.

If NASCAR was only 'How It's Made: Stock Cars' combined with a breakdown of 'official' NASCAR jargon, few people would watch, too.