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Robot competition for high school students
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is non-profit organization founded by Dean Kamen, best known for inventing the Segway (and a lot of other cool robots) to get kids excited about science and technology through a subject near and dear to every little (and not so little) kid's heart: ROBOTS!!! You've probably seen footage on TV of high school students building robots for some kind of competition. While there are other robotics league, FIRST's is one of the largest and most prestigious. They have also paired up with LEGO to produce and international league for middle and elementary school students to start learning about engineering in a format they probably already know and love. Every year, teams get a design challenge, a kit full of pieces to build their machines out of, and some mentors to help them out. Then they face off and advance tournament style to regional and then nationals with their remote controlled robots. FIRST basic concept is that too many kids, especially from poorer backgrounds, think the cool careers out there are in sports and entertainment. FIRST wants them to realize science is AWESOME! And what better way than with robotic competitions? A Brandis University study backs their claim and finds that students that participated in FIRST competitions, when compared with students with similar academic skills and experiences, are 3 times as likely to majoring in engineering and 4 times as likely to actual get a job in engineering. They are 10 times as likely to have an internship or apprenticeship in their freshman year of college. 30% more FIRST students go on to attend college than their peers. Hooray for robots! Nerd sports are just as awesome as physical ones!
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Contributor's Note
I wish this was around when I was in high school. I was varsity captain of the Junior Engineering Technical Society team. It was the nerd league. But we just got engineering problems, we didn't get to actually build fighting robots. That would have been so much cooler.
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