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Posted by colleen, Student on team #126, Gael Force, from Clinton High School and Nypro.

Posted on 5/23/99 6:29 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: NASA posted by Tim Murray on 5/23/99 2:49 PM MST:




yeah, NASA would be my dream job, but that's beside the point..

i think the sponsorship that NASA is given can be nothing more than beneficial to FIRST, and if someday it can to be a NASA sponsored program, so it goes. I think much of the work and the things we are taught to do in FIRST mirror exactly what NASA engineers face in everyday jobs (moreso sometimes than engineers from different companies)..

I remember an article written in our local paper once.. the then editor was writing in a somewhat response to snickers, mumbles, and complaints about the vast amount of coverage that was given to our team (we're a football town).. and at the time, the big story in national news what the running of the Mars Rover in space. In a nice analogy, she pointed out how the process of building that Rover ran, in a set deadline with only certain given materials, NASA had to build a robot to perform a certain task consistently and effectively, and it was successful. She also pointed out that if people wanted to see the live version of that process, they could head on over to Nypro and see that their own high school students were doing the exact same thing

in a less long-winded nutshell, having someone like NASA be big time into FIRST is a good thing if you look at it. It may create more competition, and as some people think, an unfair advantage at the awards ceremony.. but personally, i feel, overall, it is only for the best. FIRST and NASA are mirrors of each other.

Hey, everyone knows the story of Apollo 13- those engineers who has to make a round tube fit into a square hole (maybe the other way around on those shapes).. it's kinda like the stuff we do.. maybe that in in itself could be the challenge for next year...?