Dean’s Homework Assignment to FRC Teams

 

During the FRC Kickoff, Dean Kamen offered a homework assignment to every student, every mentor, and every sponsor. The text of the assignment follows below.  To see and hear the assignment, watch the Kickoff archive, and slide the counter bar to 42:23.

 

The intent of Dean's "assignment" is to help elected officials learn about FIRST and our programs, as welll as to invite them to attend
FIRST events.
 
To help you with the assignment, FIRST has created "Dean’s Homework" in FIRST Forums, where you will find instructions, access directories of elected officials, be able to copy suggested wording for your messages, see quotations from Dean, Woodie, Governor Lingle, and others that you might choose to use in your invitation.

 

We also have set up Forums for each state so you can post your invitations and responses.

 

Please visit Dean’s Homework Forum to get started, or to post invitations you have already sent!

 

Disclaimer: FIRST is not responsible for, nore can we approve, any individual communication you may choose to send to your elected

officials.

 

 

Text version of the homework assignment

"Every student, every mentor, every sponsor…you all have a Senator or two, you all have a congressmen, you all have a governor. We all have a President. I'm asking every one of you to write to these people, to call these people and say  "We have an unbelievable program. It's been around 15 years. We've taken out the risk, we've taking out the bugs.  It works. We've proved it's scalable. It has an unbelievable impact. It's incredibly cost-effective. And you need it, the country needs it, and the world needs it. You need to support us. And the best way is to show them, not tell them.

"You're going to, specifically, go to all of thes people, and invite them to a regional. There's no excuse any more. There are 8 or 9 or 10 every weekend in March.  And you're going to invite these people to a Regional, and to the Championship in Atlanta April 13 and 14th.

"You're going to send us a copy of your invitation – that's how I'll know you did your job. We're going to publish them – the best ones – on our website. And you're going to send us their answers, and we're going to publish their answers, too.

  This site was last updated 01/29/07