The "FIRST" experience?

[Adam Y.]

Originally Posted by Cody Carey

I am torn with how to interpret this: FRC 306 was allowed to flourish in my school environment only because the school knew that it was teaching kids valuable information. If the school had thought for one minute that the main point of FIRST was to convince children to follow the path of the engineer, the team may not have even been founded. Instead the money could have been used to buy materials to aid students in their career choice of any type, rather than to try to funnel them all into one.

One career choice? How is trying to persuade people into becoming engineers trying to funnel them into one career choice. Saying you want to become an engineer is exactly like saying you want to become a scientist. You have now just narrowed down your career path 20,000 choices. There are five or six major branches of engineering depending on whether or not you consider computer engineering seperate enough from electrical. These field are electrical, mechanical, industrial, civil, computer, and chemical. Those are subdivied down into even more seperate fields.