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Re: Trying to develop holistic curriculum. Need assistance.
This next sentence is half serious, half tongue in cheek: To certain extent, ignore the current students.
Now, obviously I'm not truly suggesting ignoring your current team members. Communicate (2-way, not 1-way) with them, and help them go as far as you can inspire them to go.
However, you are one person, thinking about what to include in one class, and you are describing goals and skills that more often than not involve a few years to attain/develop
Engage colleagues and the community. Start inspiring when the students are in elementary school (VexIQ, FLL). Continue as they pass through middle school (VRC, FTC). In high school, put capstones (VRC, FTC, FRC) on the several pillars of accomplishments that will have been built.
Every skill you mentioned in your question can and should be developed by some part of a school. Are you sure that all of them are developed in a robotics class? Maybe some of them are taught elsewhere, and are used by a team that remembers that "the robot is only the campfire we gather around.", and that draws on the talents of the entire student body?
Blake
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VRC Team Mentor, FTC volunteer, 5th Gear Developer, Husband, Father, Triangle Fraternity Alumnus (ky 76), U Ky BSEE, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Kentucky Colonel
Words/phrases I avoid: basis, mitigate, leveraging, transitioning, impact (instead of affect/effect), facilitate, programmatic, problematic, issue (instead of problem), latency (instead of delay), dependency (instead of prerequisite), connectivity, usage & utilize (instead of use), downed, functionality, functional, power on, descore, alumni (instead of alumnus/alumna), the enterprise, methodology, nomenclature, form factor (instead of size or shape), competency, modality, provided(with), provision(ing), irregardless/irrespective, signage, colorized, pulsating, ideate
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