Robotics Class

[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.

[slickguy2007]

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.

Our school, Montgomery High School, offers a variety of engineering courses. Robotics being one of them.

[Kristian Calhoun]

Here are some other threads with the same/a similar topic that you might want to check out:

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But we also started a robotics elective (one marking period long) in our middle school that deals with the history and different aspects of robotics. The course is more of an "Intro to Robotics" course, and generates an interest for science and technology in the students who take the class, who will hopefully then be recruited for our FRC team upon entering high school.

[Doug G]

We're not in your area, but my class is in its 4th year, centered around FRC of course. It's becoming more popular in schools, primarily because of teachers involved with FIRST and carrying that message to school boards. Out here in NorCal many high schools have an Academic Decathalon elective class, so it seemed easy to then have a robotics class centered around a competition - unfortunately Academic Decathalon is much cheaper to run and we now fight over the students we recruit (something you don't usually consider in schools these days - but a neat trend).

[Nica F.]

I've been in Robotics class for an elective the past couple years but not this year because they put it on hold. but yeah our school had robotics as an elective.

[Stuart]

I know that 437(richardson robotics) has a robotics class . . 2 last time I heard . .

[Jeff K.]

Team 1138's home, Chaminade College Preparatory, has a Robotics class. It's most C programming on the VEX Platform. The semester project though requires more mechanical design in building a robot to design a certain task.

[Lil' Lavery]

There are already numerous threads about this, but I do know of several teams. 111 has a class at both of their schools I beleive.
Fairfax County has an "academy" system in which certain schools can draw students from other schools for specialized classes (such as law enforcement, dance, animal sciences, advanced technical theatre, Korean language, etc.). The Chantilly Academy (Technology and Human Services) has several classes associated with Engineering and Robotics (and Team 612), including Engineering Systems I and II, Electronics, and Engineering Physics.

[David Carter]

I think Carl Hayden has one of the best. That is my opinion because Carl Hayden beat MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and thats a $@#$@#$@#$@# good school MIT has the best computer classes you can take!

[Cory]

Bellarmine College Prep has a robotics class.

[IraJason]

Lower Merion High School has a 1 semester robotics elective that's based off of VEX, which basically allows us to have our own in-house vex competitions and recruit those who are really interested to be on our vex team or FRC team. I also think that our programing classes are starting to use vex systems to test out code in real world situations.

[Ben Martin]

Our high school has several Project lead the way classes, which are sort of like robotics classes for us because most students on our robotics team take at least one of them.

[Mark McLeod]

Hauppauge runs a couple of elective robotics classes.

5 or 6 years of them.

[RoboMadi]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

The Chantilly Academy (Technology and Human Services) has several classes associated with Engineering and Robotics (and Team 612), including Engineering Systems I and II, Electronics, and Engineering Physics.

Just to highlight it a bit more; Team 612 mainly operate as a class orientated team, although everyone can join the team.
Engineering Systems 1 & 2 : mainly provides the leadership team and the sub-team captains
Engineering Physics : All the mechanical and electrical members
Industry/Tech Drawing : As the name suggests, AutoCad team and animation
Web Developing: Website obviously.

Most of our members are actually from those classes. Teachers recruit in-class students and help them looking at the practical application of what they learn inside a class.

[Fred Sayre]

My high school, Lindbergh High School in Renton, WA had a robotics and an advanced robotics class. The teachers responsible used to have a FIRST team (before I went to school there) but their primary sponsorship through boeing dissolved with some management changes and they haven't done it since. They do a lot of fun mini competitions and a large regional tethered competition in the spring. (4'x8' arena, 1ft cube robots, different game each year). The competition usually pulls in around 100 teams of 3 people each. The second class does more electronics and autonomous programming, but they still compete in the spring.