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XPONENTIAL | April 26-28, 2022

RoboNation Interpersonal Career Skills Boot Camp

For the first time, RoboNation is offering a special opportunity for students to focus on skill development they will need in their careers at the RoboNation Interpersonal Career Skills Boot Camp. 

  • WHO? Rising junior or senior college students. 
  • WHERE? AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL Conference
  • WHEN? April 26-28, 2022
  • WHAT? Three sessions focused on developing interpersonal career skills.

This opportunity is for any student who has participated in one of RoboNation’s programs/competitions, is a rising college junior or senior, and can commit to travel to Orlando, FL for XPONENTIAL on April 26-28. Applications are open until March 13, and results will be announced in late March.

Apply below! ⤵️

Interpersonal Career Skills Boot Camp Application

Application closes on March 13.

 

Eligibility

 • Rising junior or senior college students

 • 18 years or older

 • Located in North America

 • Current/Past participant in one of RoboNation’s programs/competitions
 • Able to travel to Orlando, FL, April 26-28
 • Must commit to 2-3 hours each day at XPONENTIAL

 

What’s Included?

If selected, students will receive the following: 

 • Complimentary exhibit hall pass to AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL

 • Breakfast and lunch provided during boot camp days, April 26-28

 • Special RoboNation swag!

 

Travel and accommodation expenses are not covered by RoboNation.

 

More information about XPONENTIAL can be found here.

Boot Camp Information

Skill Development
Skill Development

A common refrain among human resource and hiring managers is that people get hired for hard skills and fired for soft skills – or more accurately, for a lack of soft skills. 75% of employers say they have a difficult time finding employees with the soft skills their company needs. College students that were taught hard technical skills find that those they know are obsolete or no longer used by the time they graduate. Before students can understand how to get along in the work environment they must understand themselves. How they think, how they communicate what their strengths are.

 

“What’s so great about a degree in something if you only know about it, and not how to teach it, use it, or understand why people want or need it?”

 

In the RoboNation Interpersonal Career Skills Boot Camp, we will focus on career readiness as the foundation from which to demonstrate requisite core competencies that broadly prepare the college educated for success in the workplace and lifelong career management.

Eligibility
Eligibility

 • Rising junior or senior college students

 • 18 years or older

 • Located in North America

 • Current/Past participant in one of RoboNation’s programs/competitions
 • Able to travel to Orlando, FL, April 26-28
 • Must commit to 2-3 hours each day at XPONENTIAL

 

Travel and accommodation expenses are not covered by RoboNation.

Schedule
Schedule

Week of April 11 | Pre-Event Session

Who are you?

 • Strengths finder, how to use strengths, boot camp preparation

 • 90 minutes

 • Zoom webinar

 

April 26 | Day 1

Workplace soft skills and why we need them.

 • Effective communication, active listening, professionalism

 • 90 minutes

 • On-site at XPONENTIAL

 

April 27 | Day 2

We all have a role to play.

 • Teamwork, diversity, equity and inclusivity, equality vs equity

 • 90 minutes

 • On-site at XPONENTIAL

 

April 28 | Day 3

You don’t have to be in the front of the line to lead.

 • Teamwork, leadership, critical thinking skills

 • 90 minutes

 • On-site at XPONENTIAL