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Oak Park and the Vex Robotics Club are Featured on ABC 7
Channel 7 News, with Judy Hsu reporting, did a nice story this morning on Oak Park Educations Foundation's Vex Robotics program. This is a wonderful program and it was nice to see it get some publicity.
From the online story:
For an entire school year, 80 students in the district work in teams of four. From the wheels to the arms, functionality to mobility, the kids design the robots starting from a generic kit. The rest is up to their imagination.
Much like in a real job, the teams have to keep tweaking their design, working through their frustration until it works. The program also actively recruits girls to learn about careers in engineering.
"I think it's pretty cool because we get to work with mechanics, programming, and I think it's really fun," one student said.
The full text of the story and the video can be found here.
From the online story:
For an entire school year, 80 students in the district work in teams of four. From the wheels to the arms, functionality to mobility, the kids design the robots starting from a generic kit. The rest is up to their imagination.
Much like in a real job, the teams have to keep tweaking their design, working through their frustration until it works. The program also actively recruits girls to learn about careers in engineering.
"I think it's pretty cool because we get to work with mechanics, programming, and I think it's really fun," one student said.
The full text of the story and the video can be found here.
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Comment by Becca on March 15, 2010 at 12:11pm - Thanks for sharing. I'll be sure to send out a tweet about this.
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