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Originally Posted by fatjoe3833
Does anyone know of high schools that offer a robotics class as an elective? Our school has had one for about five years. We build a bot for FRC and do various other projects throughout the year. We were talking in class yesterday and could not think of any other schools in our area that offered a robotics class.
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McKee High School, Team 522, home of the 2006 World Champion Robo Wizards has had a Robotics course structured after FIRST for over 3 years. It is a hands on class designed so that the students who work in teams are given a set of problems that they need to solve, then they are given a certain amount of time with material and tools provided, to fabricate a structure based on physics and sound engineering principles and perform a certain set of tasks all done in a timed environment. Mckee also boasts of having the only full working state of the art machine shop in all of the NYC high schools. The teams of students compete against each other in their respective classes and then there is a run-off competition between the winners of both Robotics classes. They also vie for prizes. The classes meet one period a day five days a week from September thru June. Robotics class students also have the option of joining the Robotics team. The whole idea came from the fact that the students did not learn enough about Robotics, just attending team meetings one hour a week. The classes are taught by the same people that run the Robotics team. It has been a hugely successful endeavor on the part of the teachers and administrators at McKee. The teachers and staff have also written an entire Robotics curricula that the school is trying to implement for all public high schools throughout New York City. McKee Vocational High school is located on Staten Island, New York.