[Jon Stratis]

There are all sorts of opportunities on a team for someone interested in STEM fields other than engineering to go more in depth. Have you ever stopped to ask how the robot battery works, and how it's different from the battery in your cell phone? That's chemistry. What about material selection - depending on what type of aluminum you're using, it may bend to the shape you want, or trying to bend it might make it snap. That's material science. In building your robot, have you ever had to build a strong, stable structure to mount things to (like a tower for an arm)? Have you ever looked around your build space and said "We need a table to build our robot on", and actually built such a table? That could be a nice entrance into architecture.

What FIRST teaches is a way of looking at the world, of investigating what you could do and how things work. Sure, we all run out every year to solve an engineering problem, but someone with interest will find other STEM fields lurking just below the surface, waiting to be investigated and put to good use.