Bravo to these students. Learning at it's best. Last year, we were a rookie VEX team and ended up 10th in the country. This year, we are a first year FRC team. We knew how important it was to develop 7-9th grades, so we applied for the FTC robot also. We identified a few 8th graders and already they are shadowing the older team. So important to develop a deep bench.
This is youth development at its best! Could you imagine peer educators training younger students to carry on a typical science class? No way! Yet here they are training younger students to carry on the robotics program. Very cool.
Dang, these are pretty intense bots! We're using the Lego EV3 kits at my school. Just started a video series called 'Middle School Robotics' walking us through each week this semester. Not as complex as some of the ones shown here but still have kids saying 'I BUILT A ROBOT...AND THAT'S AWESOME!'
Good. Students get learning by practice. Gain knowledge by experience. Understand lessons by visual demos. It is good feeling for all the students who get this kind of scope. Learning methods are innovate in todays' modern methods enabling students retain their knowledge for long time and ever cherishing experience. Only question is how many could get this kind of models, need to be see by the mass scale and cost effective methods by even governments across the developing nations.
OK I have been challenged for a comment I made that most Robotics courses have kids putting together kits or prefabricated parts. This video seems to reinforce my idea that Robotics classes are not about hands on fabrication, but taking something preformed by an Ed company. I see no "shop' settings in this video where students are sawing filing or carrying out any technical skills to achieve their goal. The occasional soldering iron in hand is not enough.
Chris Doeller Not specifically in this vid but most of the higher end teams use atleast some custom parts. See brainSTEM with a fully custom plastic robot.
Bravo to these students. Learning at it's best. Last year, we were a rookie VEX team and ended up 10th in the country. This year, we are a first year FRC team. We knew how important it was to develop 7-9th grades, so we applied for the FTC robot also. We identified a few 8th graders and already they are shadowing the older team. So important to develop a deep bench.
This is youth development at its best! Could you imagine peer educators training younger students to carry on a typical science class? No way! Yet here they are training younger students to carry on the robotics program. Very cool.
Simply inspiring and a model of necessary change we need in education, awesome ladies!
Dang, these are pretty intense bots! We're using the Lego EV3 kits at my school. Just started a video series called 'Middle School Robotics' walking us through each week this semester. Not as complex as some of the ones shown here but still have kids saying 'I BUILT A ROBOT...AND THAT'S AWESOME!'
Great job 👍
Good. Students get learning by practice. Gain knowledge by experience. Understand lessons by visual demos. It is good feeling for all the students who get this kind of scope. Learning methods are innovate in todays' modern methods enabling students retain their knowledge for long time and ever cherishing experience. Only question is how many could get this kind of models, need to be see by the mass scale and cost effective methods by even governments across the developing nations.
My 8 year old niece is interested in taking electronics apart and putting things back together. Is there something for kids in Washington DC?
You might look around to see if there are any nearby makerspaces. That's a good place to start.
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I have been challenged for a comment I made that most Robotics courses have kids putting together kits or prefabricated parts. This video seems to reinforce my idea that Robotics classes are not about hands on fabrication, but taking something preformed by an Ed company. I see no "shop' settings in this video where students are sawing filing or carrying out any technical skills to achieve their goal. The occasional soldering iron in hand is not enough.
Chris Doeller Not specifically in this vid but most of the higher end teams use atleast some custom parts. See brainSTEM with a fully custom plastic robot.