After school robotics class

Recently, IRE has provided funding to start an after school robotics class to a few local 5^th graders. Brian Stephenson, an IRE senior, has been teaching the class on Wednesdays for just over a month. The theme for all of the robotics projects has been centered around “how can we design a robot to make our lives lazier”. One of the challenges that students completed was designing a robot which would help them sleep in longer in the mornings. The kids designed a robot that would sense a person entering t heir room to wake them up in the morning and would throw Lego pieces at the person to hopefully scare them away. The kids are having a blast learning engineering principles to make their lives lazier and are excited to wake up when it’s “Robotics Day”. The kids have so much fun that they frequently talk about the class at school. Their technology teacher has even dropped by to see what they have been working on since they talk about it so much.

It is important to help inspire young minds by empowering them science and engineering fundamentals to accomplish fun things.

Proof read by: Jim Boyd and Elizabeth McBride