Page 25 - THE Journal, October/November 2018

DEVELOPING
Robotics programs across the country are appealing to non-STEM-oriented students too, even as they learn science, tech, engineering and math (along with a whole bunch of soft skills) on the side.
BY DIAN SCHAFFHAUSER
ROSE LAM IS heading to her first year of university. She’ll be attending the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, with the intention when it’s time of declaring graphic design as her major. And what’s interesting about that major, said her mom, Krispen Lam, is that along with drawing, color and visual presentation classes, she’ll also be required to take computer science in the mix. “It’s assumed that you will be doing website design, and you need at a minimum to know how to talk with the people doing the coding.”
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