Robotics Tournament Friday In Warsaw
Warsaw Community Schools invites the public to attend the eighth annual Warsaw Robotics Vex Exhibition Tournament Friday, April 16.
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Robotics Preparing Students For A Changing World
WARSAW — It’s a rapidly changing world with increasing automation, and students in one of Abbi Richcreek’s classes at Edgewood Middle School in Warsaw gathered around her as she brought “Rowdy,” a humanoid robot, to “life.” Richcreek let the students see some of the things Rowdy can do, … Read More
Leesburg Sixth Graders Explore Robotics During December
LEESBURG — All sixth graders with Leesburg Elementary School participated in a robotics educational unit during the month of December. During this time, students separated into small groups to learn about the word “autonomous” and how this word applies to robotics. Each group had to build and code a robot so that it could … Read More
Students Invited To Robotics Build Session
SYRACUSE — Wawasee High School’s robotics team will have its first regular build session for the 2018-19 Turning Point competition season. Any Wawasee students interested in being a part of Iron Pride should attend at some point between 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, in room A205 … Read More
WCS To Host Third Annual Elementary Robotics Showcase
WARSAW — Warsaw Community Schools invites you to attend the third annual Elementary Robotics Showcase from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 10. The event will take place in the Warsaw Area Career Center Gym, located at 1 Tiger Lane, Warsaw. The entire community is welcome to attend … Read More
Wawasee High School To Host Robotics Tournament
SYRACUSE — Wawasee High School’s robotics team will be hosting 51 or more robotics teams from Illinois and Indiana in a tournament Saturday, Feb. 3, in the main gym of the high school. Doors will open at 8 a.m. and matches will begin at 9:30 a.m. Students have … Read More
Summer Robotics Camps At Wawasee High School
SYRACUSE — VEX Robotics camps for grades seven to 12 will be offered at Wawasee High School this summer. Introduction to VEX Robotics ($100) will be held July 5-7. This is for campers with minimal levels of experience with robotics. Campers will spend the week studying and applying … Read More
This 14-Year-Old Latina Girl Is Leading Her Team To the World Robotics Championship
LANCASTER, CALIF. — Valerie Castillo and her middle school robotics team from Lancaster, Calif. built a championship winning robot in a week.
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Students Spending Summer Immersed In Robotics
SYRACUSE — Eighty hours out of an already tight summer schedule for school students is a significant amount of time. But that is what the roughly 16 Wawasee Community School Corp. students attending the summer VEX Robotics Competition Camp have chosen to do.
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MIT Students Field Several Fighting Robots In Season 2 Of BattleBots
LOS ANGELES — A robot that can throw fire and saws into its opponents with a spinning blade; a 250-pound bot that can damage and throw competitors with a steel drum powered by its 100-horsepower motor; and a robot with two sets of arms to grab and hoist other machines: These are some of the robots developed by MIT-affiliated teams selected to compete in the second season of ABC’s “BattleBots.”
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Triton Awarded Robotics Grant
BOURBON — Triton Elementary School was recently awarded a robotics grant from the TechPoint Foundation for Youth. The grant will allow the school school to receive a free VEX IQ Robotics kit and to train one teacher to become a robotics educator. Triton has selected fourth-grade teacher Jenny Mevis, who … Read More
Sumo Robot Battles At Warsaw High School Career Center
WARSAW — The Warsaw High School Career Center had crowds that were elbow-to-elbow yesterday, Saturday, May 14, as the fourth, fifth and sixth graders from Warsaw Community School’s had their first Robotics Showcase. A donation from Zimmer-Biomet enabled all eight Warsaw school’s to be on equal ground … Read More
WCS Hosts Annual Vex Exhibition, Tournament
WARSAW — The engineering and technology department at Warsaw Community Schools hosted its third annual Vex Exhibition Tournament Friday, April 22, in the career center gym. This year’s game was, “Involution.” In all, 29 teams competed. Schools represented include: Pioneer High School, Urey Middle School, Carroll High School, Plymouth … Read More
WACC TO Host Vex Robotics State Qualifiers
WARSAW — Middle and high school students from all across Indiana will descend upon Warsaw Area Career Center in the Career Center Gym on Saturday, Jan. 23, for the Warsaw Robotics VEX State Qualifying Robotics Competition. The competition will start at 10 a.m. and will last most of … Read More
Robotics Expanding Within Wawasee Schools
SYRACUSE — Depending on one’s age, hearing the word “robot” could evoke memories of the evil machine gone terribly awry in a science fiction movie. But times do change and today robots are more often thought of in terms of something programmed to accomplish a certain task.
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SYRACUSE — Technology was a main theme of the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee school board Tuesday evening, Nov. 10, in Syracuse. The board heard two reports specifically dealing with technology.
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