Parent guide
Robotics careers for teens
For parents of students ages 11 to 18 (grades 6 to 12).
A robotics career is not one job, and hands-on time is not a job offer. For a teen, the near step is robotics engineering habits and proof a competitive robotics team can use: safety before motion, teach pendant time, a short program, and a video of that program on a real industrial cobot.
Students ages 11 to 18 (grades 6 to 12) start at Courses and can join the Hexkit Cobot Competition waitlist. It is a 2-hour event. Every competitor gets hands-on robot time. Details coming soon. No prior coding or robotics class is required. The point is to find out whether the student wants to be near this kind of machine.
What transfers, and what does not
What transfers is habit. Safety before motion. Time on a teach pendant. A program they can show, plus a demo video from the real industrial robot arm. What does not transfer is a license or college credit. Employers and colleges can look at the work. They do not have to treat the project as a course.
Mr. Kassem teaches from over 20 years in industry and an electrical and electronics engineering degree. He talks about shop judgment because that is the skill he trusts. He does not hand out a career map with guaranteed stops. If your teen wants the map, start at Courses, then talk about school, more time on a real arm, and the specific credential a target path actually requires.
Where to go from the guide
Students ages 11 to 18 (grades 6 to 12) can join the Hexkit Cobot Competition waitlist. It is a 2-hour event. Every competitor gets hands-on robot time. Details coming soon.