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Re: Innovation First acquires Vex from Radio Shack
In order to get a bona fide robotics curriculum into every high school in the world, it will take a partnership between some school book publishing company (tbd?) and the "new" makers of VEX, Innovation First.....
Maybe all of us in the FIRST community can brainstorm such a curriculum and then the folks at IFI can develop the actual course content. I'd love to go into the schools and teach a course curriculum built-up around the VEX technology! Think of it as college-level mechanical and electrical engineering taught at the high-school level.....
Then, lastly, ala Apple Computer Corp., the folks at IFI will have to flood the school systems with VEX hardware at discounted prices.
VEX must become the backbone of a solid robotics curriculum to get science back into the forefronts of our high school programs......GO....
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