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Re: FIRST Classroom Integration

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Originally Posted by Siri View Post
Need two courses

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".
Actually, robotics would be forced upon the students. They would not be forced to join, but once they are in they are forced to stay and devote a nontrivial amount of time to robotics.

Given this, I support a course that teaches things which pertain to robotics, but not FIRST specifically. For example, a programming class that teaches how to program physical systems rather than computer programs (please excuse my lack of proper terms, I'm not a programmer). This would be useful to students on an FRC team, but would still be completely relevant even if you decided to quit FIRST.