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It's offered in our school.

I thought about taking it and then realized that it wasn't a really good use of time.

I mean, first year, they teach you technical drawing on Autocad Inventor... Well, that program isn't really worthy of 1 year to teach (along with some basic lessons in drawing style and technique) especially when you can just grab the robotics' teams copy and learn it.

2nd year is digital electronics and that's something I competed in and knew enough about.

I wes thinking about taking Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) in 11th grade this fall but then I just got a copy of mastercam and have started learning to use it...

I get PLTW is a good course for people with little engineering background and who want to learn the basics. However, for someone who is pursuing a technical engineering field, the course is probably not too useful if you can do robotics instead ... Or motivate yourself to do it at home.
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<Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
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