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Originally posted by wysiswyg
I wonder how my school hires its employees. My math teacher has a degree in aeronautical engineering and my physics teacher has a degree in mining engineering.
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I never forgot learning that my favorite mentor in Science Applications International Corporation had a degree in Japanese History, I think it was. She was head of all records, mailroom, document management...
She's one of the reasons I insist with my kids they get a degree, cuz I learned that having a degree in anything gets you about $10,000 more a year than someone without a degree.
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Originally posted by wysiswyg
2)I was looking in my telephone book for electronics and hobby stores. I wondered if there was a listing for robotics and guess what there is. I thought to myself,"Ooo possible sponsor. How lucky?"[/b]
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Since Northrop bought TRW (who had been our major corporate sponsor and hadn't wanted us to get any other corporate sponsors ), late last year they had declined to follow thru on promises to "leave things as is" and sponsor our team.
I shared in another thread that I couldn't find a videographer from our school to go to Phoenix regional, my daughter's friend from another school volunteered. Then our school said parents had to accompany any out of school guests. So the parent came last minute. They bought our team a vcr, donated it to the team, hooked it up the feed, the student and his parent were wonderful, the kids thought the parent was "cool".
The student was so impressed with the FIRST program and our team he asked to join the team and edit the videos.
I found out weeks later the dad was VP of Northrop Credit Union. He was doing us a favor and it hadn't occurred to me to ask where he worked.
and suddenly Northrop decided to sponsor us after all.