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The scholarships are engineering for one main reason: funding. Must college based teams get their funding via the engineering department and therefore any scholarship given out would want to promote the engineering department. Those sponsorsed by companies are all engineering companies and have much more of an interest in creating engineers than creating business majors (they hire many more engineers than business people). This is an engineering competition and that's the primary focus of it. While there are many people that get experiences out of FIRST that aren't engineering based, that's a much smaller number than those who get an engineering based experience.
Matt
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