Education

Starbot – Miami’s Robotics HQ

January 27, 2011
Students Make Awesome Things at Starbot in Miami!

Starbot is pretty much the nerve center of robotics in South Florida. It’s a center that focuses on enabling high schoolers to create whatever they can imagine. Though it’s usually robots, I’ve seen student work on go-karts, R/C cars, art projects, and even a camera dolly (ok, that was me during some down time). An [...]

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Starbot – Kids Who Build Robots Concept Poster

March 25, 2010

Above is a poster idea I had for Starbot, the not-for-profit robot workshop that sort of serves as the unifying hub of all the robotics programs in South Florida. It’s inspired by a pep-talk Nola (head of Startbot and BotsIQ) gives to all the robotics classes, which is there’s 6 billion people in the world, [...]

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Nickelodeon Aims to Teach Preschoolers Math

January 12, 2010

“Everybody’s trying to teach preschoolers how to read and nobody is trying to teach them how to do math”… In some ways the new program is standard children’s fare. The main characters are miniature superheroes — a boy, a girl and a break-dancing robot — who zoom about fixing simple crises in their city, whether [...]

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Paul Cottle: Being ‘last in the nation’ won’t spark innovation [Article]

December 14, 2009

“Florida students are pretty much last in the nation for science.” …only 16 percent of Florida’s high-school graduates take physics, about half the national rate. via Paul Cottle: Being ‘last in the nation’ won’t spark innovation | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee Democrat.

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Obama Supports Bots High (Sort Of)

November 23, 2009

Earlier this morning President Obama gave a speech pushing for better STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education in middle and high school. Well if you’re looking for a documentary about all of that then look no further because that’s what Bots High is all about. The MythBusters were in attendance (way cool!) and the [...]

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U.S. Teens vs The World in Math and Sci – Not so Hot

October 14, 2009

Not really a surprise that America is getting more uneducated. But how do American teens compare to the rest of the world when it comes to math and science? Not so hot. The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) does a test every three years assessing 15 year old high school students in math, [...]

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