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Re: FIRST Classroom Integration

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Originally Posted by rsegrest View Post
However if/when it is an elective course it is not 'forcing' engagement. Due to our participation in FIRST my school has added the Texas Robotics and Automation course and Programming that is taught under the CTE umbrella. These are both electives that allow the students to choose whether or not to enroll in the courses. Unfortunately what we see is that the classes fill up with non-FIRST students and my team members have a tough time getting in sometimes :/
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I don't think anyone's looking to force it. At the most, it'd be great to get FIRST projects as common electives throughout the public school curricula, and facilitating teachers to answer "when am I going to use this?" with "well, I think there's a meeting Wednesday if you'd like to check it out and meet some engineers".
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