Last fall, a friend finally succeeding in getting me to show up at a local high school’s robotics team, where he was the faculty sponsor for a group of students were feverishly working to compete in a FIRST Robotics challenge, a sprawling nationwide competition to draw students into STEM.
Maynard H Jackson High School RoboJags (they’re the “Jaguars”):
– website: mjhsrobojags.godaddysites.com
– (for convenience, I set up both mjhsrobojags.org and mjhsrobotics.org to forward to the above website)
– Instagram: www.instagram.com/mjhs.robojags
– (not @mjhsrobojags , that was a brief 2020 account)
Below are the suggestions and tips that I presented to the students, following a year of watching and occasionally helping them build their robot.
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