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Non-engineers
I think the mentoring partnerships between students and engineers is a terrific way to introduce scientific and technical career options to high school students who may not have had much contact with people in those areas. It can be really inspiring. Or you can find out very quickly that it's "not your thing".
One of our biggest challenges in recruiting new members this year will be to show how we need people with a variety of skills and interests to join the team in order to make it successful.
Wanna design, build or drive a robot? GREAT! Wanna design, write, produce a videotape of the team or a brochure or a fundraising letter? GREAT! Wanna design and make giveaway buttons? GREAT!
So while FIRST may have been created to inspire students to look at careers in the sciences, it has a lot of impact in other fields, too!
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