My sister and I are coders on our competitive high school robotics team, and we are on a mission to reshape the future of competitive robotics. If you ever go to a robotics competition, one thing will immediately grab your attention. The girls are few and far between, about 20% of total participants in our […]
Organization: STEM Center of Excellence, Inc. State: Maryland How did you become interested in robotics? I began volunteering through my company, UPS, in 2013. I noticed the low participation of African-American students and volunteers and decided I could make a difference by volunteering. What made you want to start a team/work with students? I have […]
Terry Marbut was instrumental in bringing VEX Robotics to Alabama. He continued to grow the program each year. He was responsible for the first competition in Alabama and was the Event Partner for the first Alabama State Championship in 2014. Terry sponsored the Jacksonville State University robotics team and drove a 15-passenger van full of […]
Austin, Texas – June 25, 2021 – Today, at the Texas School for the Deaf (TSD), a three-day robotics event – Build & Play 2021 – kicks off for newly formed Texas high school robotics teams to gain experience competing in the field. With funding from the Texas Workforce Commission’s (TWC) Youth Robotics Initiative, the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) […]
Angela Wells is studying to receive her Masters of Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. She currently teaches courses at the City University of Seattle. Previously, she’s taught courses in China and Vietnam. How did you become interested in STEM? One day, I was watching multiple engineer types of engineering on […]
Wence Lopez is Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Institute of Robotics (PRIOR), a non-profit center that provides intensive Robotics/STEM programs for K-16 students where technology is integrated with theory and practice. Since its inception, PRIOR has been training students and developing world robotics champions. Participants are placed at the forefront of technology, in addition […]
MA Education, University of California, Davis; Bachelor Of Technology, Aircraft Maintenance, Vaughn College of Aeronautics; AAS Avionics, Vaughn College of Aeronautics; Teaching Credentials – Multiple Subject, Industrial Arts, Mathematics, C.T.E., PLTW Training.
Greenville, TX – June 20, 2017 – The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Dan Mantz as Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Mantz is Chairman of the Board for the REC Foundation and previously held the position of President for RackSolutions, Inc. Jason Morrella will continue […]
Prior to enrolling in a Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Introduction to Engineering (IED) class as a junior at Butler High School in Butler, Missouri, Jeremy Shaffer often struggled with his schoolwork despite working hard and getting plenty of help. That class changed Jeremy’s direction. He started working with Autodesk’s Inventor software and before long, […]
Road to VEX Worlds is a weekly series featuring teams on their path to Louisville, Kentucky, on April 20-23, 2016, to compete with 1,000 teams from nearly 30 countries under one roof for one epic celebration as we crown the World Champions! Team 359A, the Hawaiian Kids, from Waialua, Hawaii strives to compete at the highest level, maximizing […]
