FIRST Nationals on "Regular" TV

[Adam Y.]

But FIRST isn't like that. In FIRST, you have the overall problem of the competition, and you do EVERYTHING humanly possibly to try to build a good machine to do well in the game. FIRST doesn't tell the students what they HAVE TO LEARN, and instead sit aside and let the students learn to solve problems, and learn to seek help. And that, I believe, is a better form of education.

A lot of stuff I have learned in school is only meant to inspire you want to do when you grow up. I certainly hope so or else there will certainly be problems. I really hope I am not going to use any of my forensic knowledge I learned in school. My school has electives which are really only meant to show you what you can do or you can take a bunch of specifically related electives and get a sequence in them. There are certainly enough courses to take depending on your interests. Also a lot of the stuff you learn in math and science will generally carry over as I have discovered. I was annoying my friends because every time I learned a new formula in physics all I did was pick up my robotics book and there it was. Though I seriously doubt I will have any use for chemistry or even biology for that matter. In pre-calculus my math teacher would always give us math problems that would at least relate to something involving the real world. Of course it also helped that he was a former engineer and he talked about it to us.

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I agree totally. Same with Ken. I would never be in FIRST now because I wouldn't match the elietness that they want. Also, I will drop FIRST if they go the way Dave explained. That's the way Battlebots fell, and it will be FIRST's demise too.
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Errr Battlebots never fell because it was too elite. Anyone could have participated in it no matter how much of a background you had and usually everyone did.