LEESBURG — All sixth graders with Leesburg Elementary School participated in a robotics educational unit during the month of December. During this time, students separated into small groups to learn about the word “autonomous” and how this word applies to robotics. Each group had to build and code a robot so that it could remove blocks from a board autonomously.

WARSAW — Jefferson Elementary School’s first LEGO League has had a busy first semester, according to a Warsaw Community Schools press release. In 2018, the group’s theme was space travel and students were asked to research a problem with space travel and then design a possible solution to that problem. Students created three presentations over …read more.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee High School’s robotics team will have its first regular build session for the 2018-19 Turning Point competition season. Any Wawasee students interested in being a part of Iron Pride should attend at some point between 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, in room A205 at the high school. For more information, …read more.

By Ann Zydek, library director WARSAW — Celebrate National Library Week April 8 to 14 at the Warsaw Community Public Library. This year’s theme is “Libraries Lead.” Libraries lead by meeting community needs and interests for access, resources and spaces. How has the library led you to something you value in your life? Was it …read more.

WARSAW — Warsaw Community Schools invites you to attend the third annual Elementary Robotics Showcase from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 10. The event will take place in the Warsaw Area Career Center Gym, located at 1 Tiger Lane, Warsaw. The entire community is welcome to attend this free event, which will showcase the …read more.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee High School’s robotics team will be hosting 51 or more robotics teams from Illinois and Indiana in a tournament Saturday, Feb. 3, in the main gym of the high school. Doors will open at 8 a.m. and matches will begin at 9:30 a.m. Students have been designing, building and programming their robots …read more.

SYRACUSE — VEX Robotics camps for grades seven to 12 will be offered at Wawasee High School this summer. Introduction to VEX Robotics ($100) will be held July 5-7. This is for campers with minimal levels of experience with robotics. Campers will spend the week studying and applying concepts in physics, engineering and computer programming. …read more.

LANCASTER, CALIF. — Valerie Castillo and her middle school robotics team from Lancaster, Calif. built a championship winning robot in a week.

WINONA LAKE — Grace College student Joshua Hanlon hosted a 24-hour LEGO charity live stream over the weekend, Nov. 25-26. Thanks to donations by viewers and LEGO itself, an estimated $4,000 worth of LEGO sets will be gifted to hospitalized local children this Christmas season as a result of the nonstop web broadcast. Nearly 10,000 …read more.

SYRACUSE — Eighty hours out of an already tight summer schedule for school students is a significant amount of time. But that is what the roughly 16 Wawasee Community School Corp. students attending the summer VEX Robotics Competition Camp have chosen to do.

ORLANDO — Building a castle is a dream the majority of people won’t fulfill, but LEGO and Disney are making the goal easier to accomplish with an upcoming release.

LOS ANGELES — A robot that can throw fire and saws into its opponents with a spinning blade; a 250-pound bot that can damage and throw competitors with a steel drum powered by its 100-horsepower motor; and a robot with two sets of arms to grab and hoist other machines: These are some of the robots developed by MIT-affiliated teams selected to compete in the second season of ABC’s “BattleBots.”

BOURBON — Triton Elementary School was recently awarded a robotics grant from the TechPoint Foundation for Youth. The grant will allow the school school to receive a free VEX IQ Robotics kit and to train one teacher to become a robotics educator. Triton has selected fourth-grade teacher Jenny Mevis, who applied for and was awarded the grant.

PERM, RUSSIA — A robot escaped from a science lab and caused a traffic jam in one Russian city, it’s reported.

WARSAW — “Warsaw Community Schools is excited to provide a comprehensive summer learning program for our young people,” explained JoElla Smyth, summer school coordinator and principal of Edgewood Middle School. “We have a unique learning opportunity for students who are enrolled in kindergarten this fall, but have never attended pre-school.” Through a generous partnership with United Way, WCS …read more.