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Originally Posted by gwilliam
The rest of the world is supplying many of the engineers who do work for US companies, either through outsourcing (work done for American companies in other countries, both manufacturing and engineering), H1B visas (issued to foreign-educated engineers with "special skills" supposedly unavailable in the US, usually because the offered salary is far below US market salaries) and all the students who come to American graduate schools from other countries. American-born students often aren't interested in science or engineering, or aren't interested in working hard to succeed in the classes. So half of the places in the graduate school classes go to ambitious, intelligent, hardworking students who just happen to have been born and gone to college in another country.
The demand is there -- it is being filled by engineers from all over the world. America is still the land of opportunity -- our students need to answer the knock.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is precisely why FIRST exists. For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, the goal is to inspire those students to be interested in STEM and to be willing to work hard.
I would also like to say, as a student of FIRST who will NOT be becoming an engineer (No, Computer Science is NOT an engineering degree according to my college) FIRST doesn't just inspire engineers, it inspires Teachers, Programmers, Physicists, Animators, Communication Majors...