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Big tech and higher education work together to get students into the workforce. The road is well paved and well traveled. You should get your kids onto that roa
by LargeTomato 3y ago
Big tech and higher education work together to get students into the workforce. The road is well paved and well traveled. You should get your kids onto that road and it will carry them to a tech career.
Robotics, coding club, etc it's good. It's mentally stimulating and they will make friends. OTOH I went to college with people coming from poverty who didn't even have computers in the home let alone stem extracurriculars. The pipeline is just that powerful.
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y agoThis is fine, but this leads to 1 career path (Software Engineering) What about electrical engineering ? Robotics ? Applied Engineering ? And does your premise hold for not-Caltech-not-CMU-not-MIT schools ? I'm also wary of leading them to spend 2x of the equivalent of a down payment of a house, and go into debt, to then find out its not something they really love...