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Re: Doing FIRST in College
Chief Delphi is my main contact with the FIRST community these days. I don't mentor a team (none anywhere near); I only volunteer on spring break (if then); all that sort of thing.
Instead, I compete hard with the Aero Design team on campus. It's a different look at engineering, and it gets attention from employers. Robotics gets a bit more, but I can work with either one fluently.
As for skipping class, there are 2 reasons that I do it. 1) I sleep in. Bad thing, I try not to do it, etc. 2) I have a school-sponsored activity that day (school policy is that professors can't punish you beyond your not being in class for the lecture if it's a school-sponsored activity). I don't skip homework (bad things happen, beyond grades slipping), but I might turn it in late if I have a school-sponsored activity like Aero Design and can talk the professor into letting me do that. (Failing that, I turn it in early.)
What I do with FIRST/Aero Design, I do in my free time. (Admittedly, I try to structure my free time so that FIRST/Aero stuff gets priority...)
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Past teams:
2003-2007: FRC0330 BeachBots
2008: FRC1135 Shmoebotics
2012: FRC4046 Schroedinger's Dragons
"Rockets are tricky..."--Elon Musk

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