pic: JCPenny Shout Out to FIRST on a Commercial

[Cyberphil]

Originally Posted by dShad

I was on the way home and got a text from my parents about it. That definitely is cool. Maybe we could get a FIRST-based commercial one day .

~DShad

I have an odd feeling that day is not far off into the future. The difference I see is that I do not believe FIRST will fund it (or maybe not even create it). I believe the funding for a FIRST commercial will be funded by corporations supporting FIRST. When you think about it, it is a great investment. You advertise a program that will get you countless more engineers as well as overall better quality engineers (I understand this applies to many different careers and not just engineering) and you make the money back later after you employ them.

If I were a CEO of almost any major corporation, I would support this cause for a slight loss in profit in the current year to make it back, and more, later (though I am very biased)!