How Sports Can Inspire Kids to Become Engineers

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How Sports Can Inspire Kids to Become Engineers
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In our latest Ask a Dev video, National Instruments software engineer Sam Strickling discusses how to get kids excited about engineering -- through sports.

Strickling points to how sports can provide real world examples of basic engineering concepts. One example: Demonstrating how acceleration works by examining the amount of separation a wide receiver gets from a corner back.

By presenting science concepts to kids through less-dense topics like sports, Strickling believes, we can better foster the next great generation of engineers.

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