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Re: Corporate-sponsored teams!
Posted by Matt Leese at 1/8/2001 1:15 PM EST
Other on team #73 from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Rochester Institute of Technology.
In Reply to: Corporate-sponsored teams!
Posted by Patrick Dingle on 1/8/2001 11:53 AM EST:
This has to be my favorite quote from a corporation (well NASA) about FIRST:
"There is no altruism involved in this at all. I know what missions NASA is going to fly in the next 20 years. I know what sort of expertise is required to build the next generation of Sojourner. I need those people... If I can get 1,000 students a year through the FIRST program excited about science, technology and engineering, even if 95 percent of them never go through to a Ph.D. program in robotics engineering, that is still 50 robotics Ph.D.'s I can hire."
-David Lavery
NASA’s Program Executive for Solar and Planetary Exploration
Matt
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