FIRST Selected for Google's Project 10^100

[Mike o.]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

At the North Carolina Regional this past year Dean introduced the CEO's of a company that produces florescent light bulbs but they are brighter and use even less energy than other florescents. He mentioned that they plan to partner with the company (it is slipping my mind it has been 6 months) and have teams sell them just like girl scout cookies to consumers but I haven't heard anything about it since NC.

I believe that the company was Cree and it was an LED light bulb. Like you said, it has been a good time since the regional, but I believe that was the company Dean had there with him to unveil this new venture that he is trying to start up.

[AdamHeard]

This is a somewhat extreme idea, but it would certainly shape FIRST in great ways.

If you divvy up 3 million among any significant number of teams, it's not an amount that will change teams for years to come.

I think if google set aside the money to pay 100 engineers a year, for the 6 week build (and maybe through regionals), a rather decent wage, they'd have enough money for 2-3 seasons.

I'm tired of walking down pit row and seeing too many teams that clearly had no real technical mentor ship, and despite the best efforts of their students, there was just no overcoming that hurdle.