The future of FIRST

[BPetry234]

Listening to Dean and Woody today made me wonder...

What is the future of FIRST?

I'm not talking about next year, or five years from now, or even twenty. Where will we be in fifty, seventy, one hundred years? As the founding mentors and staff start to retire their shoes are filled. Will the future leaders still install gracious professionalism and coopertition in their students they way Dean, Woody, and our mentors do today?

Or will FIRST lose its core foundations to just winning?

What happens when there is a robotics team in every high school around the world? Will it turn out like Football here in the US where winning is all that matters too many teams, even at the pro level? Will we trade quantity for quality?

Will it become so big that we have "pro" robotics teams?

I don't know any of these answers obviously. So as a game, let’s pretend we just got done playing the 2109 FIRST Championship. What did it look like, what awards were given, where were the teams from, and could the students, mentors, teachers, and fans go back in time to this years' Championship and have the same or better quality of gracious professionalism and coopertition so that they could fit right in and stand side by side with all members of FIRST?