Robotics Club
Peace Robotics Team, RoboPride completes the season as winners
RoboPride makes it to the semifinals at the FIRST Regional Competition. Pictures above.
Read more about how RoboPride fared at the competition
RoboPride excels at FIRST Tech Challenge
Read more about the team's performance
See photos from Decemeber Tech Challenge
Link to You Tube to see the team competing with its robot
Link to You Tube to see the team's commercial
November: Team members show what their robot can do!
September: Robotics Club launches
HISTORY
In September 2008, Queen of Peace High School launched its first-ever FIRST Robotics Club. On December 13 club members will compete in the fall competition.
On January 3 students will pick up their kit for the larger spring competition.
Peace is the first all-girls school in Illinois to register in the competition, said Assistant Principal for Instructional Technology Integration, Barbara Smith.
Student Stories
Peace sophomore Morgan Mallett is all about hands-on activities that challenge her. She loves to build with Legos and to make things. She even likes math. That’s why when she heard about Peace’s first-ever Robotics Club she knew she wanted to join. "I want to learn more about robotics and how to program a robot," Morgan said. "I like working with my hands."
Junior Collin Davis is excited to learn the mathematics behind programming a robot. "Basically I am a math and science geek," Davis said after the first club meeting Sept. 9. "I really want to learn the cybertronics involved and how does it move?" Davis explained how the Japanese created a robot with skin made of silicone so it looked human. "That would be a dream come true," she said.
Club details
What makes the spring competition so much fun is that students build a robot that is unique. No two robots in the competition will be alike. Students are given a set of directions that only are guidelines -- the rest is up to them. From a box of pieces and parts the students design, build and program their robot.
Club members will have to use both their creative and technical skills, said science teacher Karen Amador, who is the club co-sponsor with Peace technical coordinator Joe Piazza.
WiSE Women of Peace members – alums involved in the school’s Women in Science and Engineering group – will use their engineering backgrounds to mentor club members as they build their robot.
Competitions give students a chance to win college scholarships, gain valuable knowledge and build teamwork skills.
"The robotics initiative is another avenue we offer that provides for the integration of new technologies as well as for learning experiences that nurture creative, collaborative inquiry and problem solving," President/Principal Kathy Hanlon said. "We are very excited about the expanding possibilities for scholarships for women in these areas."
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