We're hoping that we can do that with either Robotics or with D&D. Unfortunately, we may NEED to pull back on one of her other extracurriculars to make that happen. DH has been reluctant for her to give up piano, but I see that as being on the table, too. Piano is a solitary activity. Maybe that isn't the best way of spending that time at this point, KWIM? Much as I know that she will eventually come to regret having "quit" piano (most people do), it may be more important to make room for something else that has a positive social component.
Piano may be a solitary activity for her right now, but please thing three times before encouraging her to give up active music, because at university that is one of the easiest ways to socialise that there is. Piano might not be quite as great for this as playing a stringed instrument was for me, but I certainly did a fair bit of playing chamber music that involved pianists so the pianists were certainly socialising a bit!
It really sounds as though her extracurricular activities are more educational than her curricular ones at the moment. Could you take advantage of that and drop some curricular stuff instead of the extracurriculars? I bet you could get any skill you consider essential to keep going in in connection with robotics, so it needn't be all or nothing. (Btw, perhaps your DD might be interested in some of the research work reported
here - e.g. I heard a lovely talk by Barbara Webb recently about using robotic models of cricket behaviour to investigate biology.)
