January 28, 2024

Dear Middle School Parents, 

We are excited to announce that Spring Robotics Club will be starting on February 13 and will continue to meet Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 p.m. through April!

Robotics Club is a place where students have hands-on opportunities to create technological solutions to problems. Individually and together in teams, they will hypothesize, design, plan, build, test and refine solutions.

Our Fall Club has met weekly since November to experiment with different technologies including our Sphero RVRs and Arduino Microcontrollers. Those in Fall Club will continue to explore new technologies if they choose to continue on through Spring Club. We’d also like to welcome new club members who might not have been able to attend in the fall.

More than just building and coding robots, we teach skills that apply to real-world work in technology: communication, computational thinking, design process, leadership, listening and creative problem-solving. Also, successfully navigating a team environment can improve confidence and make students more likely to accept challenges enthusiastically.

This week we will be distributing a google form so students can sign up. We look forward to welcoming more middle-schoolers to the Robotics Club, and we’re happy to answer any questions you have.

Margaret Fowler and Michelle Platt

Middle School Robotics Club Advisors