Photos courtesy of East Islip School District
East Islip High School’s CORE technology skills class, led by teacher James Connell, recently completed a 10-week program in robotics in which the students designed, created and built competition robots using the VEXGO construction system. VEXGO teaches the fundamentals of STEAM through fun, hands-on activities that help young students perceive coding and engineering in a fun and positive way.
After completing several activities based around building with the VEXGO parts and equipment, the CORE students learned how to code their robots and make them run autonomously in the game field that they constructed. These activities culminated with a classroom competition in which the students drove their robots and competed against one another in two-minute head-to-head matches.
“This is the first year that I’ve taught the CORE technology skills class,” Connell said. “The VEXGO curriculum makes learning about robotics easy and enjoyable for the students. I feel like they really benefited from the experience and learned a lot in the process.”
“I really loved working with the robots in class,” student Cody Solomon said. “The competition was the most enjoyable part, and I won first place!”
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