> Watch the video - "companies hire first kids because of their experience." That is a good example lie. No company is going to hire into
> robotics, a kid with just a high school diploma.
f people are hiring for a factory, a kid who has been in FIRST will be picked over a kid who has not. As to Engineering and Robotics, most of the kids from FIRST continue on into College and after obtaining their degree, My company, and many other companies I know, will hire these kids fresh out of college, because they have that extra experience of designing and building robots.
> To be competitive you MUST lie about your costs, and your mentor MUST do the majority of the work. The kids are only there for
> appearance, sponsored by the mommies and daddies with the most money.
My frustration with the whole program is more those who look in and think this is a RICH kid's program. I guaranty that our small team does not have very many "Rich" kids. Factory worker's kids, Law Enforcement Kids, Farmer's Kids, Teacher's Kids... THOSE are not the RICH kids. The team I am with was build from scratch and when the first robot was built they had NO money left to even go to the world championship competition after they had won their first competition and earned the right to advance. The Sponsors picked up the bill. Oh, and these kids also participate in the 4H Program, and the Boy and Girl Scouts too.
Is FIRST perfect? Not by a long shot, but this competition makes these kids learn how to problem solve on a budget, learn to work as a team, learn to market their team to the community, and sooooo much more.
Go Flaming Monkeys
Charles Libby
Mentor Team 3352
When it comes to girls learning, their styles of learning tend to be more aligned with the school structure we have in our current education system. Boys have a tendency to "Like Learning" later in life, once they have a better understanding of their physical world. This does not mean Girls are smarter than Boys, or the other way around, but they are just Different from each other, just as a Apple is Different than an Orange, and we should not try to do a one to one comparison.
Oh, but this is the first step toward removing those freedoms as well. I understand that SF does allow the permission, but there are legal folk who would also like to take away our right to share software in the open source. And I am sure MS would not cry if that were taken away ether.
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You say your internet was cut off... By posting on the internet?
Please note, he said it was cut off for 36 Hours. He posted after the cutoff ended.
> Watch the video - "companies hire first kids because of their experience." That is a good example lie. No company is going to hire into > robotics, a kid with just a high school diploma. f people are hiring for a factory, a kid who has been in FIRST will be picked over a kid who has not. As to Engineering and Robotics, most of the kids from FIRST continue on into College and after obtaining their degree, My company, and many other companies I know, will hire these kids fresh out of college, because they have that extra experience of designing and building robots. > To be competitive you MUST lie about your costs, and your mentor MUST do the majority of the work. The kids are only there for > appearance, sponsored by the mommies and daddies with the most money. My frustration with the whole program is more those who look in and think this is a RICH kid's program. I guaranty that our small team does not have very many "Rich" kids. Factory worker's kids, Law Enforcement Kids, Farmer's Kids, Teacher's Kids ... THOSE are not the RICH kids. The team I am with was build from scratch and when the first robot was built they had NO money left to even go to the world championship competition after they had won their first competition and earned the right to advance. The Sponsors picked up the bill. Oh, and these kids also participate in the 4H Program, and the Boy and Girl Scouts too.
Is FIRST perfect? Not by a long shot, but this competition makes these kids learn how to problem solve on a budget, learn to work as a team, learn to market their team to the community, and sooooo much more.
Go Flaming Monkeys
Charles Libby
Mentor Team 3352
Or who pays for the bug which come from the underlying OS?
Except it is too porous to protect anything from corrosion.
When it comes to girls learning, their styles of learning tend to be more aligned with the school structure we have in our current education system. Boys have a tendency to "Like Learning" later in life, once they have a better understanding of their physical world. This does not mean Girls are smarter than Boys, or the other way around, but they are just Different from each other, just as a Apple is Different than an Orange, and we should not try to do a one to one comparison.
I sure wish more companies would be willing to look at this. Novell even has a replacement for Exchange Server. YEAH for Novell!!!!!!
Oh, but this is the first step toward removing those freedoms as well. I understand that SF does allow the permission, but there are legal folk who would also like to take away our right to share software in the open source. And I am sure MS would not cry if that were taken away ether.
Since this applies to software, does this mean opensource falls in this catagory? Thats how it reads to me.