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Originally Posted by colin340
i think one of the best way to fix this problem is to make it clear to them the differences between school (smart) and real world smart. try asking them if they have ever worked on a bike or a lawn mower or taken stuff apart. if that fails then i would play the whole well you can learn this tend to work better on the boy in the crowd thou.
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I like this idea, but to expand, FRC, and engineering at large, isnt about building or making things. It is about problem solving, and everyone has done a puzzle, or solved a math problem. Basically what I always tell the kids on our team is: "You guys are better than trained engineers, they have set ways of looking at things, you dont have those preconceptions. So you guys figure out ways of doing things and we will help you figure out how to make those ideas a reality."
Rather than restate what I have said in other posts I suggest reading here
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...9&postcount=22 Primarily focus on the part that isnt a direct response to the thread.
In response to Jane's comment about image, when we have a movie about Andy Baker similar to Rebel Without a Cause (Rebel without a Transmission?) We may correct that image, until then robots are considered geek things.