Collegiate FIRST competition

[Mike Schreiber]

Why? What is the purpose in this program?

Chris was right, the goal of FIRST is to change the culture so that engineers and scientists are idolized the way that athletes are. So is FIRST's target audience college students who are ALREADY in engineering or science?

If Kettering University students who are interested in FIRST were to participate in collegiate FIRST we would be crippling a few FRC teams in Flint. There's only so much man power we can provide. This program will hurt FRC if it gains interest.

I'm also curious how this program gained support, I attended the session on it in Atlanta and spoke with a large number of people and I was under the impression there was not much interest. As a college student, I wanted to say that I will not be participating in this program.