Thread: Does robotics attract the right students?
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Re: Does robotics attract the right students?
We try to ask teachers in the school to identify students that would benefit from FIRST - typically the students that appear to have potential but may not be living up to it.

I think it's good to have a mix of students on the team. The overachiever types, the underachiever types, "in" crowd students, "out" crowd students, athletes, art students, etc. In that situation everyone learns a lot from the other students that they normally wouldn't hang out with, and hopefully some of the underinspired get a little inspiration from the alread-inspired (or at least they can see how the ambitious people operate).
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