Overbearing Parents

[EricH]

Tell them about the SCHOLARSHIPS (including FULL-RIDE scholarships) available through FIRST. Tell them that if you get pulled out of robotics, you miss out on those. Trying to remember how many million$ are available, but it's a pretty large amount all told. At top engineering schools. (And other schools, but that's beside the point.)

Oh, and what other afterschool activity can land you INTERNSHIPS? Internships that open the door to JOBS that pay a lot.

And how could I forget the NETWORKs you build, not in hardware and software, but with other people? People that are currently, or will in the future be, in hiring positions for those engineering jobs.


And one final suggestion: Ask them, politely, if they would be willing to attend one day of your regional competition, and talk to various people throughout the event. Particularly any companies or colleges attending...


But if I was you, I'd talk about the scholarships, and the connections to the schools that develop.