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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't want to get too crazy, but there are many different roles on FRC robotics teams, and some teams have 50+ members.  There are teams that literally have maybe 10-15 kids that actually work on the robot, but like 30+ kids that are in the stands cheering on the team and in theory taking notes on potential alliance partners.  Archbishop Spaulding HS actually has a massive team like this...more power to the school/students.

The point is that there are many Robotics team members that are not actually particular technical, so it's hard to to make heads-or-tails of some of the responses.  My kid's robotics team was maybe 25 members, and almost universally the kids that really worked on the robot ended up as engineering, CS or another STEM major, and the kids working on game strategy and alliance research majored in business or liberal arts.

Interestingly, there tends to be like 1 kid every other year that works on machining and mechanical things on the robot that chooses to skip college.  One ended up going to an apprenticeship job down in SC I think with an auto company (maybe aerospace?).[/quote]

I have a IR major from a large FRC team.  That kid was on a highly technical sub team with a lot of electronics and some CAD programming/3D printing. They contributed in a  sit there with a screwdriver or soulderer or other piece of machinery type way and in programming CAD. They were also the go to trouble shooter on 3D printing.

One of the many problems with high stakes college admissions is the assumption that STEM kids must do a STEM EC, and, conversely, that only STEM kids have the competence/ interest/ ability to do STEM ECs. My kid came up through FLL, loved robotics, and never left. They learned “on the job”.  We don’t expect athletes, or drama kids or members of the band to necessarily major in those areas of college. [b]Why assume that a kid who enjoys the technical aspects of competitive robotics must be a budding CS/Engineering major? [/b]

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I agree no one needs to assume what major a kid "must" do. Maybe OP can clarify, but I think OP was simply wondering what majors a robotics-loving kid might be inclined toward.[/quote]

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