STEM-Robotics: Our students develop a sophisticated range of robotics skills which are embedded within STEM practices that include various maker technologies, coding platforms, and entrepreneurial endeavors.
Robotics is an interdisciplinary field that integrates computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Robotics integrates fields of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, information engineering, mechatronics, electronics, bioengineering, computer engineering, control engineering, software engineering, among others. (Source)
STEM: is an approach to learning and development that integrates the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. (Source)
Check out the STEM-robotics articles below that have appeared in the news recently. These articles reinforce our mission and the importance of preparing young women for future careers in STEM fields.
Girls Rock STEM
By Jennifer L. W. Fink / https://www.scholastic.com/ The competition was stiff at the 2014 Broadcom MASTERS National Science Fair—among the 30 middle school finalists were students presenting on subjects as far-ranging as acoustic levitation and ant pheromones as...
Coding: The New Vocationalism (Part 1)
https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/ There is hardly any work we can do or any expenditures we can make that will yield so large a return to our industries as would come from the establishment of educational institutions which would give us skilled hands and trained...
This camp at a Northern Virginia university shows girls a future in STEM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ Education Ann-Audrey Ezi, at left, gets a high-five from Amber Smith-St. Louis of the Norfolk Navy Shipyard after Ezi's floating aluminum foil structure held the most marbles before sinking during a naval engineering session in an...
Women & STEM: It’s Not Just a Numbers Problem
https://belonging.berkeley.edu/ Women have been problem solvers as long as women have existed. The representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and math fields—known as STEM—is a problem that not only has not been...
Can Robots Help Get More Girls Into Science and Tech?
Fuente https://www.wired.com/ Toys are a powerful way to teach kids how to engineer and code. And they way they're targeted has important effects. HERE’S A DEPRESSING number for you: 12. Just 12 percent of engineers in the United States are women. In...
How I became captain of the winning all-girls Afghan robotics team
By Fatemah Qaderyan Teen robotics champ fights to empower Afghan girls 03:19 Fatemah Qaderyan is the captain of Afghanistan's all-girl robotics team. She gave a talk last month at the Human Rights Foundation's Oslo Freedom Forum in New York about the importance...
Mujeres que guían vehículos de exploración en Marte
Fuente: ciencia.nasa.gov (link articulo) Marzo es el Mes de la Historia de la Mujer en Estados Unidos. Para celebrarlo, ¿qué mejor que un equipo de mujeres que guían vehículos de exploración en Marte? Marzo 12, 2008: Aunque pasó...
Girls Get Tech. They Just Need Others to Believe It.
New research explores how access to technology helps put girls on par with boys. By Maya Salam Welcome to In Her Words, where women rule the headlines. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Let me know what you think at [email protected]....
“Para que una niña comience una carrera científica tiene que superar muchas barreras culturales”
Fuente del articulo ( click aqui) eldiario.es El número de científicas continúa aumentando, pero lo hace de forma desigual, y la proporción de mujeres en algunas áreas continúa estancada en cifras muy bajas"Nos lo han puesto siempre muy difícil, pero ahora que está...
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