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Engineering Mentors Can Make a Difference

FTC Scrimmage Match Fact Sheet

  1. The USA currently produces less than 7% of the world wide Engineering Bachelor degrees
  2. "The American education system...just is not stimulating enough young people to want to go into science, math, and engineering." (page 270, The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman)
  3. FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC) students enter college at a rate of 88%. (Brandeis University study)
  4. 80% of the schools with an FRC team made plans to increase their engineering classroom opportunities by the second year of the program. (FIRST robotics)
  5. School based athletic programs have created an enviable system of developing pro athletes in the USA. A core part of that system is an extensive coaching stipend program that assures committed individuals will be compensated in a way that encourages the growth and stability of the system. They are the undisputed model of how to motivate and involve large numbers of students and parents.