Engineering and Robotics program in danger

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Originally Posted by xitaqua

You bring a good point that LEGO mindstorms bring more folks to join, but that's counter to our strategy, in the beginning we want to find the "hard core students", the ones willing to engage without the "gritter" and once we have those parents engaged, them we discuss with them what platform they like to engage and ideas of fundraising the money.

Thanks, Mark. This is a very interesting program you've got. I'm interested to hear more about the philosophy: you say you look for the "hard core" students and are looking to create sustainable "learning" communities. Do you feel as if you end up attracting and inspiring the non-predisposed students once the program is set up? I'd be worried that the constant rotation and fluctuation in technology levels would lose a lot of edge-case students. (Right now we inspire by bringing never-seen-a-screwdriver students together with take-apart-an-engine students in consistently industrial/real-world tech environment.)

Not that inspiration is even an inherently better or worse mission than education, but curious.


I'm still curious to know your average four-year annualized budget. You've brought up some cool sponsorship tips (I love the stakeholder model), but it doesn't really sound more cost-effective than KelliV's #3.