Engineering Team

[Mike]

I was thinking a night or two ago, and one of the things that was on my mind was how I always make these great plans for projects (room automation, balancing robot, etc.) but they never materialize for various reasons (no money, mainly). So that bought me too thinking about FIRST, and what would happen if I could do these kinds of projects, but somehow involved in a FIRST way. Couple trains of thought later, and I had an idea of an Engineering Team. It would be sponsored in the same way as FIRST teams (corporation donations, fundraising), but the money would be pooled together, and anybody on the team that needed money for a project would take a reasonable amount from the pool to buy what they needed. The money aspect, of course, would have to be governed by some sort of system, but with GP as a backbone. Each week or so, the team would meet and bring their projects to show, and present problems which could be solved as a team. This kind of idea is a realization of the speech that Dean always gives: "You did this in 6 weeks, what could you do in 6 months? 6 years?".

I think something like this would be really cool, but would need a lot of organization to bring it alive. Any ideas?