Change FIRST?

[BBFIRSTCHICK]

Just wanted to see what people had to say about this.....If you could change one thing about FIRST what would it be??

[Harrison]

Speed up the Question/Answer time.

Sometimes takes AGES to get answers from FIRST, and when you're sitting in the shop wonding if you can build something, having to wait 3, 4, or 5 days for an answer really doesn't work.

Get an 800 number that teams can call, and get an answer right away. (during like normal business hours mon-fri).

[John_Maniacs]

I would change the time it takes for the COMPLETE kit of parts/software to arrive...This year we have parts that came out of the box that didn't work, OR we had parts that never came...

[Joe Matt]

FIRST should lessen the robots part and emphasize the Science and Technology part to attract more people.

[Noah]

Originally posted by JosephM
FIRST should lessen the robots part and emphasize the Science and Technology part to attract more people.

I disagree. I do believe that FIRST should expand to include operations outside of robotics, but I feel that robotics is, firstly, and excellent means of drawing people into the organization, and secondly, an excellent means of creating student interest in Mathematics, Science, Technology, Engineering, and a plethora of other important fields.

It would, however, be very cool if FIRST expanded to include other aspects of Science and Technology.

[srjjs]

Other aspects? Like a bio-robot? Or something powered by an internal combustion engine? I think robotics includes enough aspects of science. We wouldn't want other teams to clone our robt, now would we?