This last week was National Engineers Week. Each year at this time, the Carnegie Science Center of Pittsburgh makes room (somehow) for a ton of engineers to come and set up booths with the goal of getting kids interested in engineering.
FIRST Robotics is 4 tiered robotics competition designed for K through 12th grade students. I've participated in the program at various levels since 6th grade and FIRST is ultimately what made me decide to go into robotics. To help promote the program, City Charter High School's FTC and FRC teams set up a booth with Patricia Depra, the regional director of FIRST.
We had a large robot chassis up on crates spinning its wheels and smaller FTC robots hanging rungs. Over the course of the day (Saturday) I had to opportunity to speak to at least 40 parents about the program. While few of them had heard of FIRST, they were all really interested at getting their own children involved in robotics.
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