[JAH]

At Perry Meridian we are in our third year of PLTW and so far have no official affiliation with FIRST but over half the PLTW kids are robotics kids and we use those classes for recruiting. So far the two seem to go hand in hand. I've taken/am taking 4 of the classes currently and have used skills in all of them for robotics. The only flaw I see in making FIRST one of the classes is that you would have to nearly require all team members to be in the class. In our current situation, that wouldn't work well. Not everyone on our team is going into engineering or even an engineering field. You may consider sending questions to our team leader, Scott Ritchie, because he is both the PLTW and FIRST coordinator.