Limits on Team Hours

[Chris27]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Grades matter. Grades matter a lot.

Grades do matter but they are definitely not the most important thing. Frankly a ton of kids leave high school with a 4.0 GPA. Having high grades doesn't make a person special, however, the leadership skills and the experiences that can be gained through the FIRST program definitely can. While job hunting having FIRST on my resume gathered much more attention than my GPA. I found that a lot of the younger recruiters were FIRSTers themselves.