{"id":4466,"date":"2016-04-07T07:48:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T14:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2016-04-07T07:48:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T14:48:41","slug":"school-robotics-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=4466","title":{"rendered":"School Robotics Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

As some of our readers who also follow our instagram<\/a> may know, my dad mentors a high school robotics club<\/a>. I weirdly was in Wisconsin at that same time that they ran into the former speaker of the US house of representatives, Newt Gringrich<\/a> at a Barnes & Noble while giving a demonstration of their robot:<\/p>\n

\"2015-11-08<\/a>Basically, the idea between these clubs is that kids learn both programming and some engineering. My dad worked as an engineer for several decades. I think engineering is a proper vocation and I think my dad and most of his fellow engineer friends will basically always be engineers. As a result, he has been an ace mentor for these kids, being able to share his many years of experience with the next generation.<\/p>\n

Obviously, with so much tech being used in more and more, clubs like this put kids in a good position to go further with engineering and programming in the future. Plus, it’s good to have an option beyond music and sports for after school activities.<\/p>\n

\"2016-04-02<\/a><\/p>\n

We met another such club<\/a> locally. My dad’s team got quite far this year getting all the way to #2 out of dozens of teams\u00a0in a regional tournament. These kids here in Arizona are trying to fund going to an international tournament<\/a> in Kentucky (nearly 1500 miles away) where they will face off against people from as far away as China.<\/p>\n

Here is a short video of our meeting with them at a local international supermarket:<\/p>\n