What kind of degree do you hope to pursue after high school?

[VTHokie617]

After this year I will be attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering and hopefully I will be able to minor in Business Administration.

[Angelfury126]

I grew up in FIRST and always wanted to be like the engineering mentors on the team.
I want to become a mechanical engineer. I haven't decided were to go for school yet.
I applied to Wentworth, WPI, Northeastern, Tufts, and MIT.
I've gotten accepted into Wentworth and WPI.

[mangda]

When I started high school I thought I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Later on in the school year when I joined the team I fell in love with all the social aspects of it. I loved talking to people, setting up activities, all that jazz. I wanted to mentor. My sophmore year we worked a FLL competition and just adored the children. I want to be an art teacher now. I don't know if I want to work in high school or elementary school, but I know I want to mentor. It sounds silly sometimes, but it's something I enjoy. So, I guess FIRST has influenced what I wanted to with my future.

Buisness degree all the way. I love FIRST and its inspired me more to become an engineer, but im one of those types of people that arent smart enough to become one. FIRST is awsome though with inspiring many people to become and engineer and someone who deals with science and math. I look up to those people.

-Court-

[AJL930]

Im not sure what this falls under but, I hope to be getting a degree in Computer Graphic Design, Basically working with video games. Im going through a two year program at a tech school to get my Associates Degree, then im going to a 4 year college in hopes of getting my Bachelors Degree. Hopefully some of the programming knowledge that i have learned in FIRST, can apply to this job.

[Nuttyman54]

ME baby! I've been wanting to do Aerospace engineering since 4th or 5th grade, and through FIRST i met some of them, who told me to do ME first and then get an advanced degree in Aerospace. So, that's what i'm doing (their reasoning made sense)

[Nate Edwards]

I was orginally thinking of being law and then accounting and business but first changed me while in high school and now I am a computer engineering student paired with electrical engineering with a possible double major in industrial and manufacturing engineering and a minor in computer science, entrepreneurship, math and athletic adminstration .. possibly followed with focus in network security, crypotography and business consulting. Also still considering an MBA or MBE (Masters of business in engineering (new degree at Oregon State))

Nate

[bk111]

Aerospace Engineering. Since the Ansari X Prize, aerospace has really seemed to pick up.

[nwilli327]

I will be attending either Purdue or the University of Michigan (which is where I plan on going at this point) and majoring in Electrical Engineering, eventually I planning on getting my graduates degree and a MBA also.

[BRosser314]

I am going in Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University. I might also go into computer repair /science, prob not thought. If not computers then Electrical Engineering.

[Alex Cormier]

I am in a 1 year certificate here at SUNY Canton. (State University of New York). It is 10 miles from Clarkson University (Team 229)

My course is only one of 4 colleges/universities take part in the whole country.

Powersports Performance and Repair. It's Sponsored by Polaris.
It has to deal with small engine work like ATV's, Motorcycles,Watercraft and Snowmobiles. We now have around 15 Motorcycles, 1 Jet Ski, 8 ATV's, 6 Snowmobiles and a lot of engines. We just got the $8,000 Outlaw sport ATV. We are turning it into a Baja 1000 ATV for the Professor to drive. It's going to be amazing once we are done with it!

[ScoutingNerd175]

As I sat on the bus ride home from Chesapeake with all my teammates sleeping around me, I had occasion to wonder how I had gotten so far from where I started.
When I started high school I was planning on becoming a history teacher. I didn't have a lot of friends at school because I spent most of my time in Hartford at the theatre.
I joined the robotics team Junior year, I was still planning on becoming a teacher, but I had more friends at school and I was having a great time.
Well, now I am going to College in the fall (almost definitely Syracuse University) for either Chemical or Electrical Engineering. This was never something I would have considered without FIRST.
I hope to get a chance to work with a team while in college. If not, I will definitely mentor a team once I start working.
Did FIRST change my life? Definitely, sometimes I don't even recognize it anymore. But I like it so much better this way.

[YonZ]

FIRST is awesome! I started off as an engineer, but my interest in business led me to our team's Marketing division. I am currently a Junior in HS, but I would like to pursue a BSE in college.

[Bcahn836]

Getting my degrees is one of the main reasons why I joined the NAVY. They are going to give me the resources and money to pursue the Fields that I am interested in. First I plan on getting an Associates in some Field of IT, then I plan on getting a second degree in either Mechanical or Electrical Engineering. I hope to obtain both degrees while I am in the Navy which right now is 6 years. If it takes longer than that to obtain both degrees than I will re-enlist and do whatever it takes to get them. F.I.R.S.T along with my mentors from the team have greatly influenced me to pursue my educational goals, along with my parents whom were both in the Navy for some years. Defend the country, travel the world, and get a free education what more could I want in my life right now?

[i_am_Doug]

I want to go for my computer science BD

FIRST has really changed me, i feel 99.99% smarter. Yes the other .01% was all me

FIRST has forced me to understand computers better.

Originally Posted by mangda

So, I guess FIRST has influenced what I wanted to with my future.

^ Yeah, I feel that way to.