Robotics

By Wei Low, INSPIRE 11th Grade

This year, I received the opportunity to speak to the Prince William County School board. It was amazing to be able to speak to the school board on behalf of robotics at my high school. Because students from other schools and I spoke passionately about our experiences and achievements through participation in VEX Robotics Competition and FIRST First Tech Challenge Competition, the members of the school board were able to get a glimpse of what we can do. Robotics teams in the high school, middle school and elementary school level will become even more popular within my school system and hopefully achieve the kind of popularity that sports teams have. 

Opportunities like these contribute to the goal of expanding interest and knowledge in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) areas. Hopefully, other students in school systems all throughout the United States will be inspired to participate in robotics and just might get the opportunity to advocate robotics in front of the school board. Finally, because of my speech and other people’s speeches, the school board saw the necessity to approve over $40,000 from the budget to be dedicated solely to robotics.