WARSAW — Middle and high school students from all across Indiana will descend upon Warsaw Area Career Center in the Career Center Gym on Saturday, Jan. 23, for the Warsaw Robotics VEX State Qualifying Robotics Competition. The competition will start at 10 a.m. and will last most of the day. As many as 50 teams …read more.

SYRACUSE — Depending on one’s age, hearing the word “robot” could evoke memories of the evil machine gone terribly awry in a science fiction movie. But times do change and today robots are more often thought of in terms of something programmed to accomplish a certain task.

SYRACUSE — Technology was a main theme of the regular monthly meeting of the Wawasee school board Tuesday evening, Nov. 10, in Syracuse. The board heard two reports specifically dealing with technology.

SYRACUSE — Wawasee Middle School will host a robotics competition Saturday, Nov. 21. Competition rounds may be viewed by the public from 12:30 to 4 p.m.

BY DONNA BURROUGHS Triton School Corporation Superintendent Triton eighth grade students Maddy Hurt and Carter Kuntz, have enjoyed Mr. Matt Arvesen’s class on robotics. They are shown with the car they designed and programmed. They had it ready for the end of year competition!

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Fifth graders at Triton Elementary School spoke with a robotic engineer from Istanbul. They were able to speak with him through Google Hangouts and connect real life with what they are learning from Project Lead The Way.

Jefferson Elementary School’s Lego Robotics, an after-school program, is made up of students working in teams to create and program Lego robots using Lego Mindstorms kits and NXT programming. These fourth, fifth, and sixth graders work on various challenges, from navigating through a maze, to teaching their robots how to hit a ball with a …read more.

By DANI BARKEY Chief Accountability Officer, Warsaw Community Schools Lakeview Middle School students in the Gateway to Technology Robotics program integrate S.T.E.M. concepts every day. Working as a team, students apply math and science knowledge as they brainstorm ideas to create a robot that will help them understand the many uses of technology. Students have …read more.

By DANI BARKEY Chief Accountability Officer, Warsaw Community Schools The Madison Elementary School primary grades are piloting an exciting new robotics program. Kindergarten teacher Gina Courtois is leading a group of kindergarten, first and second grade teachers to implement deeper thinking with the practice of programming robotics. In particular they are using robots geared toward …read more.