How does robotics help young people toward future careers?
Students who can design and build competitive robots, can and often do design and build wondrous lives for themselves and those around them. They become empowered and humble, two important ingredients for leadership and for success in a career and in a home. How does robotics enhance the learning experience and academics overall? Building robots builds technical literacy. Talking about science and technology, is the best way to learn about science and technology. Robots are comprised of simple machines, of sub systems and assemblies, which in turn are comprised of components (this reduction could continue until we are discussing quarks and gluons). These components, sub assemblies and systems interact in complex ways. Understanding these interactions requires hard thinking, reasoning and the application of basic science and math principles and concepts. Are very many girls involved in robotics? Girls are wonderful capable and very special people. We have had many capable young women on
