Is FIRST about Robot?

[waialua359]

FIRST has its mission, its strategic goals, and a competition vehicle in getting students (and mentors, volunteer, teachers, etc. also) there.

Our school community has its own vision and mission, which has changed over the years since we started participating in FIRST. There are some parts of it that is similar to FIRST, and some parts that are different.
What binds us to FIRST is our participation in the FRC competition and following the logistics and rules associated with the competition.

As a program, we have the freedom to pick and choose how we want FRC to help us meet our own goals and objectives. We get to decide how to inspire our own students. For some, the FRC competition is building the best robot they can as their primary objective. Wanting to stop the stop build day because of that reason should be respected by others as their own prerogative.

There are teams that do a lot of STEM-related outreach events that has nothing to do with FIRST.
Shouldnt teams get to decide what and how they use FIRST as their vehicle for inspiring their own students?

In the end, I wonder what the survey hopes to accomplish.
Is it to see what the majority of teams want?
Will FIRST make changes to the stop build day based on their own philosophical changes, if any, given the survey feedback?