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Robots for ALL Subject Areas!

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Robotics is a great way to introduce engineering into all subject areas.  When creating robots to solve a particular problem, students must use researching skills, mathematics, design, and so much more to create robots that do specific tasks.  So why are robots only being designed in specified robotics courses or after-school clubs?  We should be integrating robots, coding, and design into all courses.  I would love to see our schools using robots in math, ELA, science, social studies, and elective courses to integrate the disciplines and show students how robotics and automation are so important for our future occupations. 

 A few weeks ago, our district had teams compete in the GM Robotics Challenge at a local community college.  It was amazing to see what the teams came up with to meet the challenge.  

Most of the teams came from high school robotics courses, but our middle school teams were after school clubs.  Wouldn't it be amazing to see more robotics in all courses during the school day?  It's time to change our thinking of traditional scheduling and think about how we CAN integrate the subject areas at the middle and high school levels.  We need to think differently and start saying, "Let's make that work!" 😀

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