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Originally Posted by jpetito
Number three of your post is something we're promoting as well, though the new teams in our area struggle with skills, having no experience with them during the regular school day. In our area (Los Angeles) public education is mostly a wasteland when it comes to technically-based hands-on learning, and our biggest effort is to teach students during what educators call "flipped" time these kinds of real-world skills.
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This is worth a whole other thread! Robotics competition has the potential to be the new career tech track. We have so overemphasized college education that we are leaving behind the students for whom traditional formal education is not appropriate. Many recent articles talk about how we have many technical jobs available but not enough trained graduates.
In California, we need to campaign on Superintendent Tom Torlakson to start incorporating robotics more directly in the school curriculum and requiring districts to offer these types of courses. This is too important to leave to self-funded afterschool programs.