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Originally Posted by davidthefat
In all honesty, I thought college students were supposed to do very experimental, at the cutting edge of technology research, not playing games with robots. Well I make it sound silly, but honestly it sounds really childish compared to the research papers that college students publish with their complex engineering vocabulary and stuff.
I am eager to go to college to do the very serious research and experimental stuff. FIRST really made be get over the "video game programmer" stage, I really want to work at JPL and do really hardcore research when I am in college. I also want to pursue the doctorate degree in comp sci too.
May be its just me, but the research part of science really appeals to me.
Yea, but what do i know? Im just a Junior in highschool with big dreams.
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This more or less sums up my opinion. It seems to me that high school is about basic education and getting you ready for college. College is about getting you ready for a career. FRC competitions in high schools give students a chance to see what being an engineer is like, and ask themselves if that's what they want to work towards; college is the actual work that will get them there.
I'm a junior in high school too, so I can't speak for college students, but I personally don't see the value in this endeavour.