FIRST is missing out

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Posted by Mike Corliss at 04/26/2001 11:55 PM EST


Student on team #419, Rambots, from BC High and .


In Reply to: Re: I see it EVEN MORE differently
Posted by Dan on 04/26/2001 9:05 PM EST:



It's probably true that you learn similar things
regarding engineering and the like, but it's the ideals
of FIRST that elivate it above the mindless
robotic-slaughter that is BattleBots. in our violent
society, of course something based in violence is gonna
have a larger audience than FIRST. Maybe in a world
where school shootings weren't becoming cliche, FIRST's
peaceful and inspirational message would be more
apreciated by the media and the masses. And maybe it
works both ways, so eliminating or reducing the support
for such slaughter would decrease societal violence as
well. i dunno...

Mike