help with FIRST paper

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by wonsi88

hey, I'm writing a paper for my English class about telling people reasons to join first. Ive narrowed the reasons down to education, experience, opportunity, and overall self value. so if u have any comments that i could add to my paper post in with in with your comment, name and team number. or if you know any resources that might help me out, please tell me. thanks

Russ,
From my standpoint joining FIRST is/was simply is the right thing to do. The program allows us to help students find themselves, make life choices and have fun doing so. It (and I as mentor) care nothing for your gender, religious beliefs, geographic origins, social status or finances. If you are here, in FIRST, I must help you along the way, answer your questions, give you strategy hints, act Graciously Professional, applaud your successes and be sensitive to your failures. I must help you to be all you want to be, even if you don't know what you want. Isn't a great series of reasons?

There are a number of links on the first website

Try
http://www.memagazine.org/backissues.../teamwork.html

This is the best quote I ever saw....

Steve Sanghi, President and CEO of Microchip Technology Inc., is a strong supporter of FIRST Organization (For Innovation and Recognition of Science and Technology) and sums up his sentiments about the educational organization as such:

FIRST isn’t just about building robots, it’s about developing life skills. The kids learn about developing relationship skills and responsibility through teamwork, finance skills through fundraising and budgeting, and project management skills through meeting timelines. On their own level, the students are actually creating a business and they mustlearn to present themselves and their organization with knowledge and pride.

The end product might be a functioning robot, but it’s not just about the technology. The real lessons are learned in the process of designing, trouble-shooting, and problem-solving to achieve the final goal as one entity. The success is in the teamwork, the relationships, and the experience, not just in the results of the competition. The partnership between academia, the community and local industry, and the support of the students, is what will build our future employees and our future citizens.

[Daniel Brim]

Originally Posted by team1102a

...FIRST Organization (For Innovation and Recognition of Science and Technology)

Are we talking abot the same FIRST? The I in first stands for inspiration. But innovation leads to inspiration. I should stop before I get myself confused

-Daniel