Technical Workforce Development Through Robotics: A Conversation With Dr. George Blanks

The US workforce currently has a two million person gap in workers qualified for technical positions, putting the country at a competitive advantage.  What’s to be done?  In this Q&A session with Robotics Trends’ contributing editor John Desmond, Dr. George Blanks, Director of K-12 Engineering Outreach for the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University, believes that robotics in the form of the Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology (BEST) program, is a step in the right direction.