FIRST Book: "FIRST"

[Greg Marra]

Team 177 was given a copy of the book at The Championship event. When I visited their hotel and was told they got a copy of "the FIRST book" I was excited to get a chance to look through "Behind the Design." Instead, I found that the book was indeed a copy of "FIRST".

The book is essentially a collection of history, interviews, and impact of the FIRST program. There are many photos of robots and participants from the 2006 season, as well as detailed information about a number of teams in all the different FIRST program levels.

The book is oversized, so is intended to be a coffee table book, but is extremely text based. Despite this, there is lots of whitespace, so if one were to read it cover to cover there would be lots and lots of page flipping.

Since I was in a hurry to go out to dinner and already knew a lot about FIRST the book didn't hold my interest for long, but it would probably make an excellent gift for an interested grandparent or mentor.