How Does a Robotics Engineering Course Increase Student Achievement?

[Bongle]

If you look around on FIRST's website, they have a study they sponsored a few years back about the impact of FIRST on the students that participate. It ended with some very positive results.

When you consider the cost of a FIRST team versus the cost of some other school sports and then consider the real career benefits of FIRST compared to those sports (football? basketball?), it seems pretty clear that FIRST is a good investment.

[samir13k]

http://usfirst.org/who/content.aspx?id=46

...scroll down to the chart, you'll like what you see!

[BPetry234]

We have several PLTW (Project Lead The Way) classes at our school. Nearly all of our students on our team, even the ones not directly involved with the fabrication of the robot, take the classes. All of the students have excellent grades, several of them have interships at our teams sponsors, and all of them attend college, most for engineering degree. I know personally, these classes are the reason that I'm going to be an engineer and that, like said above, they have relativly low costs as compared to sports. From a student stand point, these are the best classes that my school has to offer. I wish you the best of luck.