How Does a Robotics Engineering Course Increase Student Achievement?

[techtiger1]

I think the student demographic as well as the type of high school has to be looked at. Florida specifically the county I went to school in (Broward) has a magnet program at each high school. Each school that offers a magnet program specialises in something diffrent. So a student that is interested in a specific field or courses can be bused into the specific magnet school. I mean its not the best solution believe me but it does condense and simply things quite a bit. As far as a course in specifically robotics/ engineering I just don't see every school or even 50% of them having the facilities or budget to do this. Which is why FIRST is reseraching the pilot and Michigan, plus in Broward county we are looking to condense FIRST teams which unfortuntely leads to the loss of some programs/ teams numbers. In short, I think a robotics engineering cirrcumlium/course is great but it doesn't have a place in every high school nor is it possible to implement at this time.