[EricH]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

I dunno, Jane... FIRST doesn't contain the word Education or Teaching anywhere. In all the speeches I've heard there is a lot of talk about STEM professionals as rock stars but not a lot about how we should be teaching students.

Is it a nice side perk? Oh yes. I do this for the "Aha!" moment when students get a concept. But you'd have to basically get Dean and Woodie to tell me that FIRST is about teaching before I'd believe you.

Well... You could argue that mentoring (which is included in FIRST's mission statement) has a strong element of teaching. But I'd agree that teaching learning is a side perk. If it doesn't happen, but mentoring does, mission accomplished.