I’m disappointed in this overly biased, and mostly inaccurate blog posting. You lead your readers and the Bryn Mawr Community at-large to believe that TFI is hosting a violent, biased, and exclusionary event without even completing real research to back up your claims.
Doug, you should have shared with the group your entire experience at the Franklin Institute when you displayed your robots. Every time Bryn Mawr has been invited, it has been a part of the “Tech Fair”, which is set up in the most public areas of the museum to encourage ALL of our visitors, girls and boys, young & old to experience the world of robotics, from the amateur, to college, to professional level.
How about the students and staff from the museum’s PACTS Program who hosted the tech fair every time you came to the event. Those students, from mostly minority communities, and some from inner-city Philadelphia are excited to participate in robotics workshops here at the museum every weekend, and even on school holidays when they are here designing, building, operating, and competing robots in special events around this region. I’d say that these robotics workshops keep these students off the streets, and occupied in a safe environment…. reducing crime on Philadelphia’s streets.
For all of the time you take bashing the members of NERC, it seems that only THEIR members (based in North Jersey) volunteer with those same students every weekend, on their OWN time to work with those same students on building their own robot. I’m sure the FEMALE robotics coach at the museum would be glad to have any volunteers that would be willing to build on the positive spirit of innovation set by Benjamin Franklin, instead of just negative posts about programs you wish not to share the real truth about.
BTW….I’m sure the museum would welcome all in the Bryn Mawr community to attend the contest on October 20. You’ll be able to meet the international group of amateur robot hobbyists, black, white, female…and male. I’m sure you’ll find out the real, inspiring nature of amateur robotics…..and become inspired to build your own.
I’m disappointed in this
I’m disappointed in this overly biased, and mostly inaccurate blog posting. You lead your readers and the Bryn Mawr Community at-large to believe that TFI is hosting a violent, biased, and exclusionary event without even completing real research to back up your claims.
Doug, you should have shared with the group your entire experience at the Franklin Institute when you displayed your robots. Every time Bryn Mawr has been invited, it has been a part of the “Tech Fair”, which is set up in the most public areas of the museum to encourage ALL of our visitors, girls and boys, young & old to experience the world of robotics, from the amateur, to college, to professional level.
How about the students and staff from the museum’s PACTS Program who hosted the tech fair every time you came to the event. Those students, from mostly minority communities, and some from inner-city Philadelphia are excited to participate in robotics workshops here at the museum every weekend, and even on school holidays when they are here designing, building, operating, and competing robots in special events around this region. I’d say that these robotics workshops keep these students off the streets, and occupied in a safe environment…. reducing crime on Philadelphia’s streets.
For all of the time you take bashing the members of NERC, it seems that only THEIR members (based in North Jersey) volunteer with those same students every weekend, on their OWN time to work with those same students on building their own robot. I’m sure the FEMALE robotics coach at the museum would be glad to have any volunteers that would be willing to build on the positive spirit of innovation set by Benjamin Franklin, instead of just negative posts about programs you wish not to share the real truth about.
BTW….I’m sure the museum would welcome all in the Bryn Mawr community to attend the contest on October 20. You’ll be able to meet the international group of amateur robot hobbyists, black, white, female…and male. I’m sure you’ll find out the real, inspiring nature of amateur robotics…..and become inspired to build your own.