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Originally Posted by lynca
One of major problems with FIRST is finding quality mentors !
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Characterizing it as a 'FIRST' only problem is inaccurate and misses the point. Any similar program will have the same difficulty.
There is a fundamental, entrenched problem that afflicts the engineering community as a whole.
The engineering community doesn't have the ability to communicate to general audiences. There is a plethora of studies that prove the point.
a) they cannot explain to the general population the relevance of engineering.
b) they have difficulty explaining the mentor ship needs to their peers.
and to make it really difficult, engineers are a 'hard sell' type of audience.
They analyze the situation and make their own decisions. The sales technique is different than that used for other personality types.
I know an insurance salesman that refuses to sell to engineers because of the level of analytical detail the potential customer applies to the products.
So it takes a particularly adept type of sales person indeed !!