I could have sworn I remember hearing the founder died of Covid back when I was in FIRST myself, it’s possible I’m confusing him for someone else though.
Luckily the robotics team covers all the parts for their robot so he’s getting a bit of the experience
However, I don’t see a reference to FIRST in his wiki page, so I must have been mixing things up. It looks like the inventor of the Segway (and founder of FIRST) is still alive: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen
I could have sworn I remember hearing the founder died of Covid back when I was in FIRST myself, it’s possible I’m confusing him for someone else though.
Luckily the robotics team covers all the parts for their robot so he’s getting a bit of the experience
Well, the owner - not inventor - of Segway apparently did die riding one off of a cliff:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden
However, I don’t see a reference to FIRST in his wiki page, so I must have been mixing things up. It looks like the inventor of the Segway (and founder of FIRST) is still alive:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen