pic: FIRST in Newsweek

[Richard Wallace]

Link to the Newsweek article, posted earlier today by Evenstar.

This is good stuff for FIRST. [edit: adding an excerpt]

Originally Posted by Esther Dyson

One model to accomplish this is organizing competitions, like the X Prize for private spaceflight, or the FIRST competition, sponsored by inventor Dean Kamen, where high schoolers compete to make the best robots. The goal is to help change our culture by celebrating people who are creative technically. When I say creative, you think about artists and dancers and musicians, but you can be very creative in designing things that work. There is an art to technology that I think is under-revered, in part because of the image of the wonky scientist. It's an unfortunate caricature, because as our economy develops, it's the ability to innovate and be creative and build new things that will help us compete.