Monday, January 11, 2010

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From High School Robotics to the White House

Image: Adriana M. Groisman courtesy of usfirst.org

Image: Adriana M. Groisman courtesy of usfirst.org

A few months ago, President Obama launched the “Educate to Innovate” campaign to strengthen competency in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. During this event, some students were invited to demonstrate their robot they built as part of the 2009 FIRST Robotics competition. One of those students, Steven Harris, commented on the importance of high school robotics teams and his experience with his own team:

FIRST Robotics has revealed the 2010 contest. Geekdad writes about President Obama hosting a FIRST robotics team at the Whitehouse.

Does your school have a robotics team? Are they involved in FIRST, VEX, BEST or some other contest? If they are not, email me to find out more about the contest or check out the links below:

http://www.usfirst.org

http://www.vexrobotics.com/competition/

http://best.eng.auburn.edu/

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