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Originally Posted by dcarr

I love this post. This is an extremely important point. Parents may pour thousands of dollars into their son or daughter's athletic experience, but only a tiny percentage of them will go on to play at a high level in college and even a smaller number will turn pro.

Participating in robotics can absolutely improve a student's chances of getting into a good school - and not only that, make them more prepared once they get there.

I am not arguing that FIRST cannot help with college, it probably has made massive impact on me and my college apps but what I am talking about is about where students sigh contacts to go to certain schools. Colleges send scouts to schools to pick out individuals on sport teams and offer them contracts to that college, I am not trying to argue that first doesn't help for college but just commenting on how the systems are very different.