Political Activism "Dean's Homework"

[falconmaster]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze

I'll say you are doing Dean's Homework! Kudos to you for getting into the office of the Governor. Is all this work from just your team or is it a coalition of FIRST teams?

APS

We worked through a state legislature and help to craft the bill. We testified when the bill was in comittee and passed unanimously. When it got to the house floor it was cut out. We are not allowed to testify there. We will help get it introduced again but this time we will lobby all the members and hold pep ralley in from of the state capitol. I think we can get more FIRST teams to particpate in the lobbying. Hopefully we won't have to "carry" the weight ourselves. Our FIRST community is very small in AZ and many teams can barely hang on to just being a team. We need to get stronger and more political as a group. Another highschool in Sierra Vista, Buena H.S. seems to be the next up and coming team to jump in and share in the fight. We are working on getting more teams!!