Unnofficial? (FIRST Robotics Singapore)

[Ken Leung]

Originally Posted by Bill Gold

If you have questions about this I would suggest you email Ken Krieger here in Palo Alto, CA. I'll give you his contact info if you PM me. He has been involved in this.

Before this discussion gets any bigger and affect any of the involving organizations' images, I would like to second what Bill said and clarify that "FIRST Robotics Singapore" is not a part of our FIRST, but their game was directly inspired by the 2003 Stack Attack Tournament.

They were consulted by Ken Krieger, the president of WRRF (Western Region Robotics Forum), when they were looking for help in creating their first year competition. As a result, the FIRST Robotics Singapore was born, and Ken K. along with some west coast FIRST students went over to Singapore during 2004 to help them run their competition. In return, the Singapore folks came over to visit the Silicon Valley 2004 Regional and watched our FIRST Frenzy tournament.

This is a seperate group effort in promoting science and technology in Singapore.

So before you speculate how this group is or isn't related to FIRST, you should ask Ken Krieger about it and get the facts straight before you decide anything about this organization/effort.