[Music]
we’re not competing with a science fair
here we are competing with the Superbowl
we’re competing with the World Series
we’re competing with all the things that
kids aspire to do because they’re fun
and they’re exciting and first in every
way is every bit as fun every bit as
exciting every bit as rewarding to these
kids as any other sport they do it’s not
like a sport
it’s the ultimate sport
[Applause]
we want to inspire and change our
culture that’s what we want to do that’s
a messenger first to inspire kids and
get them involved in technology we think
it’s really important to change your
culture because we need engineers in the
future by doing first we’re change your
culture slowly by going to outreach I go
into the Science Museum and teaching
girls about technology because there’s
not a lot of girls in the field and we
kind of want to change that the biggest
part of being a little team you would
think it’s just to build a robot but
it’s it’s never adjustable enrollment
because in the end during the
competitions things happen unexpectedly
and it’s just a reflection of life
that’s one of the big things about being
in a team you have to build that
camaraderie to basically be able to face
these challenges in the future because
of course nothing ever goes right let’s
do something you have to learn when I
saw 20 years ago how passionate kids can
get about sports about entertainment I
realized all we have to do is take
science and technology mathematics and
package it as an aspirational activity
to be done only after school you don’t
end the season with quizzes and tests
like you do in a classroom if we could
end our season of working hard to learn
science and technology with a
double-elimination tournament like in
any other sport when I joined in 9th
grade I didn’t know anyone except for my
sister then when I started being social
I started to see a change in my life
because I didn’t have that many friends
to hang around with so this has taught
me to come out of my shell what these
kids are really building in six or eight
weeks is not a robot they’re building
self confidence self respect
I have kids who are super shy coming
into robotics because it kind of fits
that nerd persona a little bit and then
they come into King Tech and they
realize that that stuff they were
interested in is actually really cool
and then they start to become a little
bit more outgoing and they really start
to you know become proud of who they are
and what they do and to the point where
they’re not afraid of themselves anymore
and they can start to tackle problems
with greater and greater magnitude
you
we’re not competing with a science fair
here we are competing with the Superbowl
we’re competing with the World Series
we’re competing with all the things that
kids aspire to do because they’re fun
and they’re exciting and first in every
way is every bit as fun every bit as
exciting every bit as rewarding to these
kids as any other sport they do it’s not
like a sport
it’s the ultimate sport
[Applause]
we want to inspire and change our
culture that’s what we want to do that’s
a messenger first to inspire kids and
get them involved in technology we think
it’s really important to change your
culture because we need engineers in the
future by doing first we’re change your
culture slowly by going to outreach I go
into the Science Museum and teaching
girls about technology because there’s
not a lot of girls in the field and we
kind of want to change that the biggest
part of being a little team you would
think it’s just to build a robot but
it’s it’s never adjustable enrollment
because in the end during the
competitions things happen unexpectedly
and it’s just a reflection of life
that’s one of the big things about being
in a team you have to build that
camaraderie to basically be able to face
these challenges in the future because
of course nothing ever goes right let’s
do something you have to learn when I
saw 20 years ago how passionate kids can
get about sports about entertainment I
realized all we have to do is take
science and technology mathematics and
package it as an aspirational activity
to be done only after school you don’t
end the season with quizzes and tests
like you do in a classroom if we could
end our season of working hard to learn
science and technology with a
double-elimination tournament like in
any other sport when I joined in 9th
grade I didn’t know anyone except for my
sister then when I started being social
I started to see a change in my life
because I didn’t have that many friends
to hang around with so this has taught
me to come out of my shell what these
kids are really building in six or eight
weeks is not a robot they’re building
self confidence self respect
I have kids who are super shy coming
into robotics because it kind of fits
that nerd persona a little bit and then
they come into King Tech and they
realize that that stuff they were
interested in is actually really cool
and then they start to become a little
bit more outgoing and they really start
to you know become proud of who they are
and what they do and to the point where
they’re not afraid of themselves anymore
and they can start to tackle problems
with greater and greater magnitude
you
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