STEM-RoboticsTM: Our students develop a sophisticated range of robotics skills which are embedded within STEM practices that include various maker technologies, coding platforms, and entrepreneurial endeavors.
Robotics is an interdisciplinary field that integrates computer science and engineering.[1] Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Robotics integrates fields of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, information engineering, mechatronics, electronics, bioengineering, computer engineering, control engineering, software engineering, among others. Source
STEM: is an approach to learning and development that integrates the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Source
Check out the STEM-robotics articles below that have appeared in the news recently. These articles reinforce our mission and the importance of preparing young women for future careers in STEM fields.
What Really Happened At That Robotics Competition You’ve Heard So Much About
July 22, 20177:31 AM ETHeard on Weekend Edition Saturday This week, the FIRST Global Challenge, a highly anticipated robotics competition for 15- to 18-year-olds from 157 countries, ended the way it began — with controversy. On Wednesday, members of the team...
Why coding needs a stronger emphasis in every school
BY CINDY WALLACEJuly 17th, 2017 Coding and robotics can be incorporated into content areas easily from sequencing activities to writing If you have been to an educational technology conference in the last 5 years, you have seen more and more emphasis...
Girls Rock STEM
By Jennifer L. W. Fink / https://www.scholastic.com/ The competition was stiff at the 2014 Broadcom MASTERS National Science Fair—among the 30 middle school finalists were students presenting on subjects as far-ranging as acoustic levitation and ant pheromones as...
Coding: The New Vocationalism (Part 1)
https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/ There is hardly any work we can do or any expenditures we can make that will yield so large a return to our industries as would come from the establishment of educational institutions which would give us skilled hands and trained...
These girls have built robots since they were toddlers. Now they’re competing on a world stage.
By Maia Silber/ July 16, 2017/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ From left, Katie Johnson, Sanjna Ravichandar and Colleen Johnson sit with their robot while watching the FIRST Global competition at DAR Constitution Hall. (April Greer/For The...
News STEM- Robotics
Stereotypes and cultural norms dampen girls’ interest in STEM, but educators can counter the disparities with small changes to their practice. In several studies, when children were asked to draw a mathematician or scientist, girls were twice as...
