{"id":1306,"date":"2022-04-05T17:28:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2022-04-05T17:28:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:28:39","slug":"joy-on-choosing-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/2022\/04\/05\/joy-on-choosing-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy on Choosing Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[25-31; 32-39] The build season for robotics is six weeks from the first week of January to the second week in February. You have six weeks to construct an industry-grade robot that will complete a challenge. For example, one year <em>we build our robot to<\/em> <em>play <\/em>soccer and <em>another year we built the robot to <\/em>shoot frisbees and climb a pyramid made from piping in the center of the field. These robots are five feet tall and one hundred and twenty pounds. <em>The design process involved <\/em>reading through the manual that NASA and FIRST <em>distributed to each team. <\/em>We <em>had to<\/em> engineer everything. <em>We made<\/em> CAD models of it, <em>built a <\/em>prototype, <em>and<\/em> <em>programmed it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[37-39; 43-47]<em> During my junior year of high school, <\/em>I was able to take off two months of schooling because I was homeschooled and moved it to June through August. <em>When I was in build season, <\/em>I put in a hundred hours a week, for six weeks, in robotics. And we ended up making it to the world competition that year. It paid off and I learned so much from my mentors <em>(engineers and computer scientists) <\/em>and just like my other peers and like working in the engineering process from like start to finish. It&#8217;s amazing. Going through it five times, definitely helped me now in college. But, yeah. So, I accredit my ability to engage in robotics that much to being home schooled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[25-31; 32-39] The build season for robotics is six weeks from the first week of January to the second week in February. You have six weeks to construct an industry-grade robot that will complete a challenge. For example, one year we build our robot to play soccer and another year we built the robot to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,24],"tags":[101,106,32],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-quotes","tag-design","tag-joy","tag-why-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}