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Originally Posted by Katie Hans
At my school, we don't necessarily have a class devoted to FIRST, but we've got classes that teach how to use Inventor and CAD. I took the class that taught Inventor, and it helped me a lot.
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Heres another really good idea. Even though we have four classes attached to FIRST, we are trying to get as many people involve as we can. Recently our new leadership team is trying to recruit the teachers from the Web Developing Class, Programming Class (Java & C), Technical Drawings, and Advance Drawings to be part of FIRST program.
So even if you don't have a class devoted to FIRST, recruiting teachers can be a really good deal too. I was not known to FIRST, until my teacher gave me an assignment to work on which, was related to FIRST, and i got in
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Its like "bait the hook well, so the fish will bite." This is how i did it last year for my team:
"An excellent course and a great teacher is always recognized by Awards...and how cool would that be if its from F.I.R.S.T."
It worked me we got plenty of teachers involved.