Robotics is much more than just creating robots. It’s about experiencing new things and gaining new knowledge. The teacher of the classes, Jason Price, has seen many students come and go.
“Students learn teamwork, problem solving, creativity, and knowledge of coding,” Price said.
There are two different types of classes that include robotics. There is competitive engineering which goes to competitions around the state, and possibly around the world, and robotics, which is a smaller version of competitive engineering.
“The programming is different in competitive engineering, instead of block coding in robotics class, they use text based coding using C++ coding,” Price said.
The competitive engineering class is split up into 4 different teams who won 4 awards in total at their first competition. Adeline Henry is a freshman who came to the competition and is on team 1338x.
“We won tournament champion and the excellence award,” Henry said.
While they did well at the tournament, there is always room for improvement.
“We want robots to improve scoring, efficiency, and spread so our teams can go further in the tournament,” Price said.
Henry, as a student, knows the struggles of robotics and getting those awards.
“We spent a lot of time making sure our robot was able to complete all the criteria for both awards,” Henry said.
