Collegiate FIRST competition

[Barry Bonzack]

One of my management professors taught me this: At all times you are holding a bucket in each hand, one full of water, and one full of gasoline. Management is knowing when to throw which bucket.

Excellent times to throw the bucket of water: When angers flare up
Excellent times to throw the bucket of gasoline: When one has an idea that has even the smallest chance of great success, especially when the risk is small.

It sounds like there are many people that are behind this that have a spark of an idea that perhaps can someday take-off. If the idea flops, I see no loss of value to the rest of FIRST.

My bucket of water includes statements like "when I was in college, I felt just as much of a part of an FRC team as I did in high school." and "I consider it more important to become a mentor to high school students on an FRC team."

My bucket of gasoline says "Heck yes! Your ideas are solid, and the game looks awesome. This potentially could gain the support of many FIRST alum that have no interest in mentoring, and can potentially pull more sponsorship and support from areas not already reached by FLL/FTC/FRC."


Here is my Huge bucket of gasoline, turn your spark into raging wildfire, Go Collegiate FIRST go!