Nimitz Robotics team hosts VEX Workshop
Pictured are teams working on their robots during the second annual VEX Robotics Kickoff Workshop.
Nimitz is the VEX Robotics Event Partner for Houston. The event was sanctioned by the Robotics Education Competition Foundation (RECF).
Teams from across Houston attended the workshop to learn about the 2015-2016 VEX Robotics game “Nothing But Net.” The workshop focused on building strategies, programming of robots and the rules of this years game. The programming sessions showed students how to make their motors and sensors work as designed using remote control. The students were also shown how make their robots perform “Autonomously” (self running with no remote control).
Teams from HISD, Aldine, Conroe, Huntington, Deer Park and The Woodlands represented their schools robotics clubs at the workshop.
Approximately 70 students attended the workshop.
Nimitz Robotics teams are under the direction of David Ericson, Engineering and Robotics instructor at Nimitz.
Aldine ISD’s Career and Technical Education department (CTE) sponsors the robotics activities through the Technology Student Association (TSA), which is a Career and Technology Student Organization (CTSO).
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