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Re: Percentage of Work Done by Students.

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Originally Posted by RebelWithARobot
1) No company is going to hire a student simply because they worked on a FIRST robot.
2) You can be inspired to be an Engineer without knowing how to build anything.
Being inspired to be an engineer without actually knowing what it involves (i.e. being inspired without actually knowing how to design or build anything) is pretty dangerous. Someone creative who might otherwise go into arts or the humanities might say "gee, that mentor of mine sure knows how to build a good robot, I want to go into engineering!" but be horribly disappointed when they realize engineering is calculus, math, and many other somewhat boring (to a creative/artistic person) things that they may not enjoy.

If you only understand the ends that someone achieves without understanding the means that got them there, you might get a very wrong impression of what they were doing and whether or not you'd like it. If someone doesn't like math but they like designing/working with robots, a career in marketing or sales might be a better choice than engineering. They'd still get to work with them and perhaps set specs for new robots, but they wouldn't need to deal with the nitty-gritty.
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