More ramblings. Dean Kamen has truly created a miracle here with FIRST. He describes it as a kind of athletics for the mind – and this is truly the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup and the World Series of robotics all together. The competition here is really intense and concentrated. One of the reasons that FIRST was formed was to encourage students to take science and engineering seriously, and to recognize students for doing so – and as a by-product of that others take science and engineering students seriously.
In spite of the silly costumes, there is a directness of purpose here that is unmistakable. These are going to be the NASA scientists of the future, the developers of the next generations of computers and technology.
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