Mentoring a youth robotics team for competitions such as FIRST can be a rewarding way to help build the next generation of STEM leaders.
An inspiring article by a future roboticist
[In July, 2011, I interviewed and then wrote about an inspiring high school teacher who spearheaded the founding of the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy, was the 2010 recipient of a $500,000 MacArthur Fellow award, and is the lead character in the book The New Cool by Neal Bascomb which tells the story of his high school’s winning entry in the…