Title: The head master of my primary school took a small group of students every semester on industry site visits.<p>I believe these site visits played a meaningful role in developing my engineering and entrepreneurial interests&#x2F;thinking. Although I only vaguely remember the details, I do have a strong lasting impression of the locations&#x2F;factories we visited and people we met.<p>I got to see a plastic pipe molding facility, coke cola bottling factory, first wind power turbines in Cape Town area and assembled a door alarm prototype at the neighboring university. This was all before the age of 13.<p>In university I had similar practical exposure doing an internship at a boiler manufacturing factory, chicken processing plant and finally a tech startup.<p>I truly cherish these experiences and glimpses into the real world. Obviously I knew very little of what was really going on, but these experiences helped me build a sort-of mental map to unpack my options at the time.<p>Do you think practical site visits as a teenager is a good idea? Have you had similar exposure and did it have a lasting impact on you too? Do you think we need to create more opportunities like this for students?
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