FIRST, my thoughts

[Ryan Albright]

I was sitting in my A+ class last night and i was debating with a MSCE student about the future and what it brings. We where of course talking about computers and then hybrid and electrical cars. Then i brought up robotics and this seems like the only subject in this whole discussion that we agreed about. I told him what i was involved in and we talked on how the future is in the engineering of robotics and soon how robots are gonna be able to be built on a assemblie line. We talked aobut all the engineers that are coming out of FIRST. The guy i was discussing with is a baby boomer and of course the baby boomers where the people that carried the careers that past 10-15 years. The baby boomers will be retiring or are retired already and we where talking on which group will take the next big uprising of careers and where. We talked aobut all the kids graduating going to college to be a engineer or a programmer or even a pr person because of FIRST. I know FIRST was big and had a lot of impact on people but as i was talking to this guy it really hit me on we are gonna be the next generation to step up into the high demandign careers and a lot of these people that have the careers as being a Engineer for the Army, Motorla, NASA, They are gonna come out of FIRST. Thats when we bothed agreed that the "Generation of FIRSTER'S"(as a term i came up with for all kids that are involved with first.... nifty heh?) will be taken over for these baby boomers. Well thats my input sorry if this seem completely out in the open.