White House announces major STEM initiative

[Jonathan Norris]

Sounds like an good initiative from the President, but I was personally disappointed by their seemingly lack of knowledge of the FIRST Robotics Program. In the press release and articles about the announcement they keept on referring to the 'cougar cannon'..... which I found as a pour way to describe a FIRST Robot, and FIRST probably doesn't like thats their main mention in the press releases. Its one of those things that the media thinks sounds cool, but doesn't describe what a FIRST Robot really is. I was hoping for more, I have yet to figure out how FIRST and FIRST teams will be able to benefit from the program. Hopefully we will see more details about it soon.