Re: National Honor Society for High School Engineering/Robotics students?
 

With regard to an AP Engineering course, the college board does have one in the works and it's expected to be established in another couple of years, not sure when. It's intended to take the place of the freshman year intro to engineering course, but I wonder if credit will ever be granted by a college since many of these intro courses are very school and program specific.

I teach an engineering course now and was asked for feedback on the proposed curriculum. I'll reserve judgement on its quality until the final set of standards are released.

Re: National Honor Society for High School Engineering/Robotics students?
 

I started reading this thread because I'm looking for a way to recognize students who fully commit to our FRC team. I've proposed a varsity letter because I think that conveys something to the student as well as college admissions people, but I was turned down.

At my school, robotics is considered a club and as such receives no formal recognition except at the end of senior year when it is too late to affect college admissions. If I have students who have committed to the time and effort as frosh, soph or junior, I want that to be immediately apparent. The core of my team works as long and hard as any sports team and I think that should be recognized.

I'm frustrated by the challenges of this and wonder if anyone out there has any ideas.