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SEAN ROBINSON: Some
of the students

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in Junior Lab come in with
some experience on how

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to use equipment, basic
equipment like oscilloscopes,

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voltmeters, function
generators, things like that.

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Some of them have never
seen those things before.

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So there's a learning curve.

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In fact, there's
many learning curves.

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There's a multi-dimensional
learning surface.

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Now all of these skills, no
one of them is very difficult.

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But having to learn many
of them simultaneously is

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one of the challenges we hear
from students consistently

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that they have to
have to get through.

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So again, we spend
about the first month

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of the course with a lot of
really directed small tasks,

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just to get people
over the hump.

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And these many
small but multiple

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tasks that they
all need to learn.