Grades 9-12

.50 Credits

Level 1

Course # 2340

This course leverages the “coolness” of robotics, and the excitement of head to head competition to inspire and engage students in the STEM learning environment.  

Students will be taught how to design and build a mobile robot to play a sport-like game using key STEM principles.  STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, in an interdisciplinary and applied approach.  The overall objective of the course is to have the students compete head-to head against peers in the classroom, or possibly against other students from other districts in the VEX Robotics Competition.

A modular and project-based approach will be used to teach the design process in a hands-on manner.  The teachers will move the students through an actual engineering project in which the students will be producing a robot that is able to complete the designated task.