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Originally posted by Ken Patton
The great thing about FIRST is that students get to experience some of this while they are in high school and they can easily change the educational path they are on. I often tell people that I don't care if students involved in FIRST become engineers - we are just giving them the opportunity to decide for themselves (and I think enough of them will see the bright light at the end of the tunnel and go for it).
Ken
Mechanical Engineer since 1985
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Well said Ken, many of the students that cross my path have gone into medicine, pre-med, law, law enforcement, trade schools, computer science, construction, art, auto-mechanic and even engineering.
And they all (mostly) felt that the FIRST experience was hard work but priceless and it allowed them to examine many new opportunities they didn't know about.
PS- This thread/postings is one of the best I've seen, I don't know there was so many old timer.... oh I meant Senior FIRSTers!

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