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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
(Emphasis Mine)
...FIRST is not about education...
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Ironic then that
FIRST just sent out an email about voting for them in the TakePart Challenge as listed under
Education...
I don't disagree with the mentor/student balance thing, just bringing up a point that it is about education. Education can be in many forms: lecturing, showing, doing, etc. We are educating students in what it is like to be an engineer, and exposing them to science & technology.
Not sure I have a formal opinion about canned websites & awards. Coding HTML is becoming ancient. Just like we don't sit down and write assembly to program our robots. If someone can efficiently use a tool to come up with a great design that conveys their information, that's just like real life.